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Description: | Photographs relating to the service of Private Frederick Hooson (Army Service Corps) with 3rd Echelon Troops, General Headquarters, British Salonika Force during the First World War and as part of the Allied Army of Occupation in Turkey in 1919. These include photographs of 3rd Echelon Troop's camp near Lembet, the nearby tumulus, road bridge at Lembet and the Seres road. There are also views of the city of Salonika (White Tower, harbour, Church of St Sophia, Arch of Galerius) and local people (shepherd, woodcutter, 'Balkan News' newspaper seller, a wedding party at Hortiach and refugees at Lembet). One photograph taken outside a 3rd Echelon hut is of archaeological interest showing as it does a large urn. There are also three images of Mrs Harley's grave in the British section of the Allied war cemetery at Lembet, showing the memorial raised by the Serbians that still exists today. Additionally, men of 3rd Echelon are depicted enjoying an outing to Langaza and there are also images of streets in that town. A small number of prints showing the landscape of Rendina Bay at Stavros are also included. Portraits of individual soldiers and groups taken during the Salonika Campaign include: two portraits of Hooson, one of Staff Sergeant Harry Ansell, one of Corporal Frank Shephard, the 'CR' staff 3rd Echelon (taken spring 1917, most names given), 3rd Echelon football team at Lembet Camp and a group of soldiers outside bell tents at a concentration camp near Salonika prior to leaving for Turkey.
The photographs covering Hooson's time at Chanak show guns in one of the Turkish forts that guarded the Dardanelles, houses and street scenes in Chanak town and an unexploded shell fired on Chanak by HMS Queen Elizabeth in 1915. The album concludes with a view along a road near the site of Troy and the interior of St Sophia in Constantinople (Istanbul). There is also a head and shoulders portrait of a member of the King's Royal Rifle Corps with the caption 'The Army of the Rhine (Summer 1919)'.
Also part of the collection are three photo-postcards (two of individual soldiers and one of Hooson, a fellow soldier and a small boy - taken in Salonika 19 July 1918). A Field Service Post Card sent by Hooson to his mother on 26 April 1917, acknowledging receipt of her parcels on 20 March 1917, is also included. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Salonika Force British Army 1914-1918 Salonika Campaign 1915-1918 British Army Army Service Corps Salonika 1915-1918 Balkans First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hooson, Frederick | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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