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Description: | The majority of the photographs cover Lieutenant Finn's service with 'D' Company, Camel Transport Corps (Army Service Corps) during the Palestine Campaign. These include scenes around the bivouac camp and transport lines at 'St James Park' near Gaza (camel lines, camels being watered, camels being washed in the sea, loading camels). There are also informal portraits of Finn and other officers of 'D' Company as well as photographs covering Egyptian drivers of the unit undergoing gas helmet inspection and a lice inspection. Further images of the Palestine Campaign cover 'D' Company's pack camels in convoy near Rentis, stores being unloaded from boats on the beach at Bealah, 10th (Irish) Division entering Gaza, British cavalry entering Ludd, Turkish weapons and equipment taken at the Battle of Katrak, Turkish trenches and dead horses after the cavalry charge at Marghar on 17 November 1917 and a tank recaptured from the Turks. In addition, there are photographs showing an observation kite balloon being inflated, a kite balloon being pulled along behind a GS wagon and one being shot down in flames, an armoured train, an ambulance train, a Holt caterpillar tractor towing tracked wagons, the tank 'Tiger' near Gaza, the grave of a Turkish sniper and 'D' Company's peace celebrations at Baabdath in Lebanon. There are also two Turkish photographs showing infantry and a machine gun team in trenches.
Also covered by the collection are Army and Camel Transport Corps race meetings (the latter includes a view of Allenby watching the racing), races at Casino Parc de Beirut, Roman ruins at Balbeck, scenes taken by Finn when on leave in Cairo and Alexandria, general views of Acre, Beirut, El Mezrah, Haifa, Jaffa, Jerico, Jerusalem, Meana, Port Said, Tripoli, Tyre and Egyptian archaeological sites such as Luxor and the Valley of the Kings. The are also a small number of photographs taken in and around Salonika including hospital ships in the harbour, mules being watered and farmers gathering in the harvest. Finally, there are two photographs captioned as the LUSITANIA 1915 (the liner in entering docks).
Along with the photographs, Finn's album also contains the following:
Programme for the Camel Transport Corps Races, 22 June 1918.
Programme for Desert Mounted Corps Race 3rd Race Meeting, 1919 (English and Arabic text).
Programme for the Bir Hassan Steeplechase, Beirut, 1 March 1919.
Programme for racing at the Turf Club, Beirut, 22 March 1919.
Newspaper cutting giving Lord Canarvon's account of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen.
Newspaper cutting (Daily Mail) 'Palestine Farce' being about the poor financial position of Britain's post-WWI Mandate. | 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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