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Description: | Collection of albums, loose leaves and loose prints relating to the service in the British Army of Brigadier Hugh Murray Johnstone McIntyre CBE DSO during the interwar and Second World War periods.
A large green album entitled (in gold effect) 'Photographs': compiled from a set of photographs by photographer R B (Randolph Bezzant) Holmes of scenes of the North West Frontier Province, specifically the Kaibur Pass during the Third Afghan War (1919). Of particular interest are: Al Masjid Camp; camp at Landi Kotal, Dakka Camp, looking towards Girdi from an emergency picquet during the action of 21 June 1919.
This album was presumably collected during MacIntyre's service with the 3rd Peshawar Mountain Battery along with amateur photographs depicting general scenes of his experience out in North West Frontier Province and India during the years immediately after the First World War (1919-1921) including scenes possibly relating to the preparations to receive the Afghan delegation for peace negotiations at the British Lines, after the Third Afghan War 1919. Also Gurkha troops in action in a remote part of North West India during the interwar-period, possibly 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles during the campaigns in North West Frontier Province, 1923.. There is also a small grey album with amatuer photographs of an expedition to the Himalayan region of northern India and includes scenery, hunting, camp, local guides etc. There are a small number of wemi-formal unit photographs - at present unknown units - from the First World War period
There are a large number of prints relating to artillery operations and training, including a series depicting the establishing of a gun position and observation point, along with the subsequent shoot. Though these are most likely to be training, a few may be on Operations, the local is likely to be Mesopotamia (Iraq). Outside of India in the Inter-war period there are aerial photographs of Gibraltar and environs (1935) when MacIntyre was in charge of the coastal defence guns and just prior to the Spanish Civil War commencing. And also of the coastal guns at Hong Kong.
His Second World War service is represented by prints relating to service in Norway in 1940 with a 3.7 inch gun of 51st (HAA) Regiment, Royal Artillery, views of Harstad, the hillside gun position, the height-finding detachment and the gun crew; Scenes of artillery units in North Africa, specifically Libya and Tunisia during the Second World War when MacIntyre was OC of 2 Anti-Aircraft Brigade. Anti-aircraft positions and actions in Italy and anti-aircraft command positions and gun sites at Tobruk and Bardia.
There are leaves from an album, also covering the campaign in North Africa and Italy during the Second World War. specifically depicting the use of HAA guns for ground attack, a role devised and instigated by McIntyre.
Also included but as an oddity within the collection are a ostcard print of the funeral posession at St George's Chapelm, Windsor Castle, probably of King Edward VII and a parade of Italian forces, particuaraly artillery and cavalry units, presumably pre-Second World War and acquired from retreating Italian forces. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Holmes, Randolph Bezzant | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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