Description: | Five photograph albums containing 630 photographic prints and postcards.
Three albums (229 prints/postcards) cover the 1st Balkan War 1912-13. The majority depict troops of the Montenegrin and Serbian Armies, including artillery and transport. Other subjects include Turkish prisoners of war, Albanian refugees on Corfu, the British Red Cross contingent, Serbian occupation of Alession and Durazzo, Montenegrin evacuation of Scutari and subsequent International Naval Occupation of that port and portraits showing the national dress of Montenegro and Albania. Places covered include Alessio, Antivari, Cattaro, Cettigne, Dulcigno, Durazzo, Gruda, Murichan, Pentari, Podgoritza, Scutari, Sin Kol and Zogai. There are also good portraits of King Nicholas of Montenegro and Hassan Riza, Turkish commander of Scutari. A number of 'heroic' picture postcards illustrating the Balkan states defeat of the Turks are also included.
One album (186 photographs/postcards) covering the years 1914 to 1917, dealing with Loch's time as an intelligence officer with the artillery in France (1914-15) and then the British Adriatic Mission and British Mission to the Serbian Army (1915-17). Subjects covered include French Cuirassiers bivouacked along the Estaires-La Bassee Road (October 1914), troops of the Indian Division around Ypres (October-November 1914), scenes in Ypres (November 1914), HQ IV Corps at Bruay (Chateau de Labuissiers - summer 1915), officers of the British Adriatic Mission at Scutari, including Admiral Troubridge (December 1915), general views of Athens, Alexandria, Rhodes and the Venetian fort at Chalcis, officers and Serbian troops on Corfu (May 1916), Allied garrison in Athens (January 1917), officers of the Inter-Allied Military Commission at Athens (January-August 1917), Greek Independence Day parade in Athens (7 April 1917) and Allied officers at Achmetaga, Corfu (May 1917).
One album (215 photographs and postcards) covering the years 1917 to 1921, dealing with Loch's time with the British Mission to the Serbian Army, visits to England and post WWI correspondent work for the Daily Telegraph in France. Subjects include Serbian troops, local inhabitants, landscapes and buildings of Corfu (1916-1917), French occupation of Athens (25 June - 19 August 1917), the Italian air station at Valona (February 1916), the exchange of ratifications of the Versailles Treaty, includes Lloyd George, Clemanceau, Bonar Law and Lord Curzon (10 January 1920), visits to the former Western Front including Albert, Arras, Bapaume, Bullecourt, Chateau-Thierry, Lens and Soissons (1919-1920), visits to Austria (July 1920), Chantilly and Chartres (1921) and time spent in England at Eversley, Kingsley, Lythanger and Woolbeding (1918-1920). |