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Description: | Collection related to the service of Herbert Theodore Phillips with the 1/5th (Weald of Kent) Battalion East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) in Mesopotamia and India during the First World War. Phillips was later commissioned as a Second Lieutenant with the Indian Army Reserve of Officers attached to the 126th Battalion Baluchistan Infantry, 6th October 1918.
The album contains photographs primarily of service in India including scenes at Agram camp such as practice trenches, gardening, and a leave party arriving in 1917. Named individuals include: Capt. P A Maynard, R.S.M. St John, Uncle Bob, Sydney Smith, Flanaghan, Doctor Twain.
Photographs of India also include the Bangalore Races 1917, tourist photographs of Bangalore, Devlali, Nasik, the 1/72nd Punjabis in Delhi, and family life in Nagpur. Also present is a formal portrait of the regimental band.
The collection also contains photographs of Mesopotamia thought to be taken in 1916 and 1917. These feature the 32nd British General Hospital, Amara, Christmas 1916, Armenian refugees at a camp in Baqubah, railway construction, Shiek Saad, the Wadi and Tigris rivers, Ali Gharbi, Macmunn Bridge Amara, advance base Kut, Kut el Amara, Bagdad, a rest camp at Ruz, transport (Dunsterville Force), Jebel Hamrin, troops on board HAT SISILIA Basra to Bombay, Bunder el Abbas, Sharoban, and Basra.
The end of the album features a small number of photographs of a cottage and chickens thought to be in England.
Newspaper cuttings within the collection relate to a report about the drums of the 1/5th Bn. The Buffs and the death of Alan Burgess believed to be the oldest surviving ex-Buff in the country.
The collection also contains a set of 15 photographs marked as Dunkirk May 1940 taken by Lieutenant W R Kershaw aboard HMS HARVESTER. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Not known | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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