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Description: | Photographs mounted on loose album leaves relating to Lieutenant Luther Barford's service as in interpreter with the Indian Cavalry Corps on the Western Front during 1914-15. The prints include images of Indian Lancers digging reserve trenches at Richebourg St Vaast in November 1914, manning new positions at Festubert in December 1914 and waiting to move up to the line on foot during January 1915. There are also group photographs of officers and men (Sowars) of a Lancer unit (including a number dated 30 September 1915). Portraits of Major General Maharaja Shri Sir Pratap Singh are also included. Other photographs relating to the Indian Cavalry Corps show the 20th Deccan Horse watering horses in the River Authie, horse-lines at Vendin-le-Bethune (December 1914), British and French officer interpreters attached to the Corps, motor and horse/mule transport, a horse show held during 1915 and men of the Meerut Clearing Hospital football team. There are also two interesting photographs showing officers of the Corps staff trying on gass masks just after these were issued in the spring of 1915. A handwritten caption list titled 'LHB with the Indian Army in France 1914-15' also included.
128 black and white photographic prints mounted on loose album pages (deimensions: 375mm x 198mm) | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Barford Luther Holden (Lieutenant) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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