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Description: | Album of photographs relating to the service of an unknown British officer with the Army Ordnance Corps in Mesopotamia during and just after the First World War. Subjects include portraits of the officer; the troopship journey out to Mesopotamia; group photographs of staff at the AOC Depot; Indian pack camel transport; scenes relating to the British advance on Samarra in April 1917; Turkish prisoners of war; wrecked railway stations; captured Turkish equipment and artillery and general scenes in Baghdad and other towns. There is also a sequence of photographs taken in and around Nasiryeh including measures taken on the railway against Arab attack (boarded carriage windows, artillery piece mounted on open truck, typical outpost); scenes along the River Euphrates, streets and local people in Nasiryeh and the site of the ancient city of Ur. Off-duty entertainments are also covered in the form of a horse racing meeting at Baghdad and scenes relating to an AOC concert party. The album also holds photographs relating to the officer's journey to India at the end of the campaign. He travelled on the troopship ELEPHANTA, stopping at Ceylon before reaching Bombay.
The album also contains a very interesting sequence of photographs taken in the mid-1930s during an expedition to drive three cars from London to Baghdad in 10 days via Marseiiles, Port Said, Haiffa, Beyruit and Damascus. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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