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Description: | Photographs relating to the 1/1st Berkshire Yeomanry in Egypt 1916. These include informal group photographs of members of the unit and formal portraits of individuals taken at commercial photography studios. There is also a head and shoulders portrait of a member of a pioneer battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment. Other photographs relating to the Berkshire Yeomanry include horses being washed in the Mediterranean, members of the unit in camp and in the field and scenes from a horse show (show jumping and best turned out General Service wagon and four mules). The collection also includes a formal group photograph of three Egyptian soldiers (possibly grooms attached to the Berkshire Yeomanry), patients and a nurse at a military hospital and archaeological sites in Egypt. With the collection is the leather wallet in which the photographs were kept prior to donation to IWM.
Sixty-three black and white photographic prints postcards (dimensions between: 65mm x 45mm and 90mm x 140mm) | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Egypt Berkshire Yeomanry Egypt and Palestine 1915-1918 Ottoman Empire British Army Palestine and Arabia 1914-1918 First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown Photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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