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Description: | Negatives covering the military service of Alf Regan in Mesopotamia during and just after the First World War. The images include Army Service Corps lorries; entrance to the Burmese Labour Corps camp; 14th Hussars in the Peace Day Parade, Baghdad; Roman Catholic Corpus Christi parade in Baghdad; the Maude Bridge, Maude Hotel and Kotah Bridge in Baghdad; the river gunboat HMS GREENFLY; the hospital launch BASANTA; an Arab policeman; a group of Bedouin Arabs employed as guides by the British Army; view of graves, including that of Lieutenant Colonel R W Hewitt DSO (14th Hussars) in Baghdad North Gate Military Cemetery; a British regimental memorial; various scenes in Baghdad including New Street, clock tower, Midan Mosque and a funfair; also Arabs on the banks of the River Tigris, Arab women drawing water from the Tigris and Arabs mounted on camels. There is also a portrait photograph of Alf Regan taken on 2 March 1978.
Seventy-five film negatives (dimensions: 115mm x 70mm) and one black and white photographic print (dimensions: 240mm x 180mm) stamped on reverse 'Ray Renolds, Paris 45 87 31 23, Tous Droits Reserves' | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Mesopotamia 1914-1918 Middle East 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire British Army 1914-1918 First World War Indian Army 1914-1918 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Regan, Alf | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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