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Description: | Five prints of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington during his service in the British Army in 1898, and as a military correspondent for the Morning Post and the Daily Telegraph in 1918 and 1921.
The collection comprises: one carte-de-visite by G Lekegian & Co. of Cairo, showing Major à Court (Repington) in the uniform of the Rifle Brigade, 1898; one small print showing à Court (Repington) conversing with Colonel Villiers Hatton of 1st Battalion the Grenadier Guards during the Sudan Expedition, 1898; one print showing Repington with senior Italian officers, 1918; one print showing Repington leaving court during his prosecution under the Defence of the Realm Act, February 1918 (Copyright: Sport & General); one print showing Repington accompanied by Percy Bullen and Lord Riddell, taken during the Washington Naval Conference, December 1921. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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