Description: | Mounted and unmounted prints acquired as parts of donations to the Department of Exhibits & Firearms, found in October 2003 and forwarded to the Photograph Archive.
a. Six mounted prints of groups of Royal Artillery personnel: late 19th century artillerymen grouped round a 12-pounder field-gun; 'Old Contemptibles' of the 22nd Reserve Battalion, Boyton Camp, 24 January 1918; members of the Sergeants' Mess, Bordon Camp, 1925; three unidentified group photographs taken during,and shortly after, the First World War.
b. Large mounted print of the Imperial War Cabinet, 1 May 1917. The mounting, which is damaged, friable and pieces of which are missing, is annotated with the names of the cabinet members and their signatures.
c. Four loose prints: British passport photograph of an unidentified middle-aged woman; a seaman, C R Budden, who served aboard HMS YARMOUTH during the First World War; soldier, A J Chardwood, taken at Constantinople, 1919; two unidentified, male and female US Army personnel of the Second World War. |