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Description: | One album of 96 photographs relating to Captain De St Croix's service with the 2nd Battalion, 119th (Mooltan Regiment) Indian Infantry in Mesopotamia during 1915, including the regiment entrenching at Mazeera and subsequently manning the positions. There are also photographs of tented camps at the same location. Similar defences at Qurna are also covered as is Fort Fry and HMS LAWRENCE and ODIN are pictured off Qurna (17 February 1915). In addition two photographs show the Viceroy of India leaving a parade of troops at Qurna on 7 February 1915. Other photographs of the 119th Infantry record their embarking on river steamers at Magil and later at Qurna for transport up the Tigris. The latter move was undertaken on 7 March 1915, the steamer BLOSSE LYNCH carrying the regiment towards Basra and Shaibah. Also included in the album are photographs of other units: 103rd Mahratta Light Infantry returning from the affair at Ratta (20 January 1915); Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Barrett and staff returning from a reconnaissance at the sand hills, Ratta; field guns of 63rd Battery, Royal Field Artillery, on the move at Mazeera and a standing patrol of the 33rd Cavalry. There are also a number of photographs showing Arab labourers constructing roads and officers of the 119th Infantry engaged in the sport of 'pig sticking'. Finally, there are portrait photographs of Captain De St Croix, Lt D B Burgoyne-Wallace (7th Rajputs) who was killed at Alwaz (3 March 1915) and Subadur Major Bhair Singh (119th Infantry).
Brown cloth covered Series D album manufactured by Kodak Ltd (dimentions: 200mm x 158mm) containing 96 black and white photographic prints in 'slip-in' mounts. Each page is annotated in ink (handwritten) with a photograph number and caption information. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | De St Croix, Aubrey | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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