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Description: | Loose prints depicting the service of Lt Col (Acting Brigadier-General) Francis Henry Borthwick CMG DSO TD, of the 1/5th Royal Welsh Fusiliers and later in 1918 commanding officer of 160 (Wales) Infantry Brigade, part of 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division, itself part of Egypt Expeditionary Force 63.
Prints cover Portraits of Borthwick at various stages of his carrer and after (Captain, Lt Col), service with the 1/5th RWF prior to the First World War, with fellow officers in a summer camp in Canarvon in 1912, Band of 1/5th RWF at Canarvon;
First World War coverage: Private Weatherheart, Borthwick's batman between 1918 and 1919. Portrait of Bernard Head, also a major of the 5th RWF climbing in either the Alpes or the Himalayas in 1914. (Major Bernard Head was killed at Gallipoli a year later); visit by Borthwick to 1/5 RWF in 1918 when acting Brigade Major for the 158th Brigade (also present is Liberal politician and MP for Flint Boroughs Major Thomas Parry DSO (later Lt Colonel and CO of 5/6 RWF)
Post War Coverage: Aerial view of the guns of the 53rd (Welsh) Divison on parade for General Allenby's Inspection on the beach at Alexandria (December 1918); faded print of Borthwick and nurses at the Ras el Tin Hsopital (December 1918); | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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