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Description: | The album contains photographs relating to Alfred Sly's service with the 5th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, in India (1914-1915), Mesopotamia (1915-1917), Palestine (1917-1918), Syria (1918) and Egypt (1919). The former include images of buildings and monuments such as the main gate and tomb of Akbar the Great at Sikandra, the tomb of Itmad-ud-Daula and the fortress at Agra as well as a British barrack bungalow at Secunderabad and Indian buffalo, camel and ox transport. For Mesopotamia there are a number of photographs taken at Samara including the 5th Hampshires bivouac camp, Sly's mess dugout, caterpillar tractors of the Royal Artillery, Indian cooks preparing food, a train and turntable wrecked by the retreating Turks and British troops on the railway. There are also a small number of images relating to the advance on Baghdad during February and March 1917. These show Turkish prisoners at Shaikh Jaad, the gunboat HMS FIREFLY after her recapture and scenes in Baghdad around the buildings used as HQ by the staff of 7th Indian Division. For the Palestine Campaign there are photographs of British troops on a light railway near Jaffa, soldiers resting at Beit Sid, the trenches of the 92nd Punjabis near Jaffa, a kite balloon being shot down in flames close to the same town, 60-pdr guns on the move near Zimmerin, a working party of Turkish prisoners at Ludd, captured Turkish stores at Mushudieh Station, British signallers at a recently occupied Turkish position near Serefend (Jaffa) and a British bivouac camp also at Serefend. There are also photographs of general scenes and principal buildings in Jerusalem, Gaza, Haifa and Jaffa. Similar, general photographs are also included of Beirut, Damascus, Tripoli and Zgharta in Syria. The only image relating to Syria that has direct military interest is one showing British troops in a billet in El Mina. For Egypt, where Alfred Sly found himself in 1919, there are photographs of the local inhabitants, sites and objects of archaeological interest including the Pyramids, Sphinx and mummies in Cairo Museum, along with street scenes in Cairo, Ismailia and Port Said. Finally, the collection has a single photograph showing the Turks executing five men (probably during the Armenian massacre). This last photograph was probably taken from a Turkish prisoner or found amongst captured material. | 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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