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Description: | 162 mounted and loose photographic prints covering the service of Private Norman Denning with the 1/1st Kent Cyclist Battalion on the North West Frontier of India between March 1916 - November 1919. A number of the photographs cover operations of the Waziristan Field Force in 1917: pass through the Tochi Valley, the gate of Bannu town, British troops in a hilltop sanger, Mahsud prisoners escorted by Indian troops, Indian Supply and Transport drivers loading a pack camel, armoured cars in action. Also, photographs covering the activities of the Baluchistan Field Force in 1918 including British military camps (including Fort Munroe and Barkham), the 1/1st Kents fording a river, police posts at Barkham and Bewatti destroyed by Marri and Khetrin tribesmen, villages destroyed by the British, the Bewatti Pass, General Miles and staff commanding operations, the village of Isani after capture by British forces, men of the 1/1st Kents at rest at Ruckni, British troops moving through the Suliman Range, men of the 1/1st Kents making chapattis in camp, prisoners taken by the British and tribal peace delegation to meet General Miles. There are also two photographs dating from the Third Afghan War (1919) one showing Peshawar Fort and the other, Afghan prisoners captured by the British. Amongst the loose prints are a nice interior view of a barrack room at Dalhousie in May 1917, one of Mahsud prisoners in jail at Tank during April 1917, portraits of members of the 1/1st Kents (including a head & shoulders portrait of Denning) and a group photographs of battalion Lewis gunners. There is also a sequence of photographs showing funerals of the following members of the battalion (full names and dates of death from CWGC database 1/8/13):
Corporal Lewis Alfred Black (died 8 November 1918)
Lance Corporal Cyril George Smith (died 10 November 1918)
Private Frederick Aspden (died 3 November 1918)
Private George Compton (died 16 November 1918)
Private Thomas Dennis (died 7 November 1918)
Private Frederick Edwin Dewell (died 9 November 1918)
Private Percy James Fairbrass (died 5 November 1918)
Private George Hawkley died 20 July 1917) (CWGC has his rank as Lance Corporal)
Private Ernest Robert Martin (2 November 1918)
Private Ernest Cross Smith (died 5 November 1918)
Private Bertram Relf (recorded by CWGC as an alias: real name Bertram Hills) (died 7 November 1918. He is recorded on the Battalion war memorial in Canterbury Cathedral as Private E Relf.
The collection also includes photocopies of Denning's Army Form Z. 18: Certificate of Employment During the War and a pem title 'The Mahsud'.
The collection comprises 106 loose photographic prints of various sizes, some with handwritten annotations on the reverse. Also 54 prints in individual card mounts (3 sizes), most have handwritted annotations on reverse or front of mount. Two photographic postcards are also included. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Indian Home Front 1914-1918 Kent Cyclist Battalion British Army 1914-1918 British Army Empire & Commonwealth | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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