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Description: | The majority of the photographs relate to the involvement of the 2/4th Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) in the Palestine Campaign, 1917-1918. These include men of the battalion digging a redoubt in the desert; a bivouac camp at Mendur; the unit's portable altar used for church parades in the field (set up at El Arish in 1917); walking wounded being evacuated from the front by train (19 April 1917); the graves of 2nd Lieutenant Mapleston and Private A W Clarke and Army Veterinary Corps personnel performing an operation on a sick camel. There are also a number of portrait and group photographs of soldiers including Private 101647 C Everest (No.11 Egypt Mobile Workshop Unit, Army Service Corps), Major Few, 2nd Lieutenant Dawson, the Reverend Guy Pearse, men of No.6 Platoon (January 1917) and scouts and snipers of the 2/4th Battalion in 1918. Also included is a photograph of a camouflaged sniper lying amongst some rocks (he wears a camouflaged smock, head cover and has his rifle covered in similar material to blend into the background).
There are also a small number of photograph covering the battalion's time in Egypt, prior to their move to the front. These include images of a tented camp at Hill 40 near Kantara, the cinema at a Change of Air Camp, a large camp of bell tents and huts in October 1916 and bivouacs of the 2/4th Queen's at Bir-el-Abd in the Sinai Desert (December 1916).
Finally, there are two post-First World War photographs, the first showing the Cenotaph soon after its unveiling with workmen putting the finishing touches to the surrounding roadway. The second photograph shows members of the 2/4th Queen's Old Comrades Association at their reunion dinner at Grants in Croydon on 29 April 1958. The veterans depicted are (l to r) Harry Mann, Captain E Herbert, George William Ebbutt, Major General Whitfield, Reverend Cannon Warren-Hunt, Captain Colin Duncan and E A Rogers. (Note, this photograph is copyright of 'The Advertiser' Croydon). | 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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