Description
Object description
Two photograph albums covering the First World War. The first, compiled by Mary Price-Jones, relates to her service as an ambulance driver on the Western Front. Photographs include Army Service Corps ambulance drivers at Le Treport; the unloading of wounded at Le Treport and Calais and the evacuation of casualties from No.2 Canadian General Hospital, Le Treport; groups of women ambulance drivers (some named) and their vehicles (including Buick motor ambulances); general view of No.3 General Hospital, Le Treport and a funeral at No.3 General Hospital. Also photographs of medical personnel at the Hotel de Anglais in 1917. The album also contains a number of inter-war family photographs.
The second album contains a collection of general photographs of both British and German origin relating to the Western Front. These include a number of British official prints, including one incorrectly identified with a handwritten caption as 'First tank attack'. Other photographs show a German military cemetery; a battery of German 21cm guns (probably L/12 'Der Morser' type); ruins of towns on the Western Front; dead on the battlefield after an attack; the Kaiser and Crown Prince; a working party of Russian POWs with German guards; scenes in German trenches on the Western Front. A small number of the German photographs bear a handwritten note: 'Taken from a German spy' - this is very unlikely and it is more probable that they came from a German prisoner.
The collection also includes a printed copy of the despatch from Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig covering the period 8 December 1917 - 30 April 1918 and copies of three newspapers: Cambrian Daily Leader (Wednesday 7 November 1917), The British Gazette (Friday 7 May 1926), South Wales Echo (Friday 7 May 1926).
Physical description
Brown coloured album, card covers with leather covering over spine. Dimensions: 305mm x 260mm), album leaves are held in place with a lace that allows additional pages to be added. The second album has a green card cover (dimensions: 255mm x 185mm). The photographs in both albums have been glued in place, those in the second album are only glued along one edge. The brown albums contains cut outs from prints - individuals/faces/and vehicles that have been stuck in to create scenes. Of the three loose prints, two are First World War German subjects: military parade and a German NCO with his dog. The third photograph is a mounted portrait print (damaged in the top left corner) by H A Chapman of Swansea, dated 1913.