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Description: | Three albums containing images relating to: Armed Royal Navy sailors on SS LOUSINA at Southampton before proceeding to the 1919 railway strike, scenes and buildings at RN Gunnery School, HMS EXCELLENT Whale Island, Portsmouth c 1918; scenes around the Persian Gulf; Petty Officers of HMS BRISTOL on camel infront of the Great Pyramid of Giza and Sphinx; Panoramic view of Muscat Harbour, gun-running dhow captured by HMS PROSERPINE, April 1908; taking out the ammunition from the dhow; sinking the dhow by gunfire; boarding party from HMS PROSERPINE inspecting the papers of a trading dhow; general scenes of Bombay, India and Trincomalee, Ceylon; garrison camp and Boer cemetary at Diyatalawa in Ceylon; portraits and images of graves of two sailors killed at Jaskh during an encounter with gun runners, Arab and Afghan prisoners on board HMS PROSERPINE and HMS PHILOMEL; portraits of sailors from HMS EXCELLENT, HMS GOLIATH, HMS PHILOMEL 1910; Sports day at Whale Island; Christmas day at Whale Island c1910; Swedish cruiser in Bombay harbour; Royal Marines from HMS PROSERPINE at Jaskh; barracks at Calaba, Bombay; various personal family images; scenes buildings and activities at HMS COLUMBINE circa 1923-1925, Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth including Officer's Quarters, Boy's Dining Room; Eighth and Ninth Destroyer Flotillas; various classes and group portraits; HMS ST CHRISTOPHER (Coastal Forces Training Establishment) at Fort William during the Second World War; various scenes therin and also personal images of surrounding countryside.including Fort William, Loch Lomand, Loch Linnie, Ben Nevis etc | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown Photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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