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Description: | Three albums containing black and white photographic prints and printed material covering the service of F Jenkins with the Sussex Yeomanry from summer 1914 until the end of the First World War. Also three loose album pages mounted with photographic prints and press cuttings covering the visit of a group of Royal British Legion members from Bognor to Cologne in 1935 during which they met German war veterans and various Nazi Party officials. Also included are a series of ten photo-cards of Hoffmann photographs showing Hitler on a cruise down the River Rhine.
Photographs in the albums cover the Sussex Yeomanry's camp at Lewes during summer 1914, including a portrait of Captain Weller-Poly; mobilization of the regiment in August 1914, including the signals section of the South Eastern Mounted Brigade at Canterbury (press-cutting included which gives names of individuals); service of the South Eastern Mounted Brigade at Gallipoli including group photograph of HQ staff, water tanks at Gurkha Bluff, rest camp at the Eski Lines, frontline at Fusilier Bluff, canteen at Gully Beach, HQ 42nd Division and cemetery at Geoghan's Bluff; scenes in Egypt including the Sussex Yeomanry HQ at Sidi Bisr, 230th Signal Section staff at Suez, the troopship HMT Royal George in the Suez Canal, officers' quarters and 230th Brigade Signals Office at El Ferdan; photographs relating to the campaign against the Senussi at Siwa; the campaign in Palestine 1917-1918 showing 230th Brigade signallers at Belah, cookhouse and bivouacs at Shellah, signallers and mule carrying cable-laying drums, dugouts at Sheik Abbas and in Wadi Mann, camp at Dorset House, a searchlight moving up to the frontline near Gaza, disabled British tank on the Gaza battlefield and forward signals party near Jerusalem in 1917.
Interesting items of printed ephemera include: Territorial Force mobilization and Embodiment forms for August 1914 (Army Forms D.419 and E.635), Humourous postcard-sized notice advertising a free travel pass from London to Berlin available to all patriotic Englishmen attending their nearest recruiting office, Turkish soldier's pay book and 74th Yeomanry Division Christmas card for 1918.
Three photograph albums, two with brown car covers and one with covers of maroon cloth over card. All three albums have the pages laced in. All contain a combination of photographic prints, photographic postcards, printed ephemera and press cuttings. All the material in the albums is glued to the pages. One album has a handwritten title on the front cover: 'Gallipoli, Island of Imbros (Mudros), Egypt.' There are also three loose album pages to which are glued photographic prints and press cuttings. Other material includes a single loose photographic print; five printed postcards bearing line drawings of scenes of German prisoners of war during the First World War and a set of ten commercially produced photocards of Hitler. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Veterans Egypt and Palestine 1915-1918 Dardanelles Ottoman Empire Gallipoli 1915 British Army 1914-1918 British Army Sussex Yeomanry Commemoration Gallipoli 1915-1916 Animals at War First World War Palestine 1914-1918 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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