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Description: | Photographs relating to the service of Captain the Revd. William Pascoe as chaplain to No.28 Casualty Clearing Station in Macedonia 1916 - 1917. The photographs include views of No.28 CCS at Karasouli and 79th Field Ambulance at Oreovica, the latter includes the church - used to house sick and wounded. There are also photographs of the hut, tent and dugout accommodation occupied by staff at the CCS and Field Ambulance. Forms of transportation to carry the wounded are also covered. There are also group and individual portrait photographs of officers and men serving with No.28 CCS including: Lt Col Boyle, Capts Foley, A Fowler, Jarvie and Patrick (surgeon), Lts Dwerryhouse, Waterson and Wood, Chaplain W Treleaven, Sisters Bayliss, Beaforth and Holden and Pte J Mansfield (1st York & Lancaster Regt - Padre's Batman). A portrait photograph of Pte G Brown (8th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry), gravedigger at Karasouli cemetery, is also included in the album as are images of some graves in Karasouli and Lembet Road cemeteries (former: Pte T McMaster, 12th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and Pte W Gray, 8th Royal Scottish Fusiliers; latter: Cpl J Harper, 238 Company, Army Service Corps, Pte J Bingham, 11th Cameronians and Pte W Dennison, 3rd Dorsets attached 7th Royal Munster Fusiliers). The collection also contains some landscape views including one looking across to Hill 535 over the ground crossed by men of the 60th (London) Division in 1917. Finally, there are photographs of the local population, methods of farming and the aftermath of the August 1917 Salonika Fire. | 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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