Photograph album of Capt. W. Harold Morgan: Mesopotamia

A photo album kept by Capt. W. Harold Morgan, (born Worcestershire, and lived near Ross-on-Wye). An electrical engineer and stores master, he was awarded the OBE (military division) for his service in Mesopotamia during the First World War. Each page is annotated, most photos are captioned. For example the album records: * the sea voyage from Britain around South Africa on SS Kenilworth Castle * boxing matches on the deck * Sierra Leone * Cape Town, South Africa * Officers: AC Clarke, GR Renwick * Durban * Zulu rickshaw men * SS Franconia taken 2 minutes before it was torpedoed. The wash of the SS Nile in foreground, listening for submarines. * SS Nile, on which Morgan travelled from Durban to Bombay * Persian Gulf * HT Ellenga, on which Morgan travelled from Bombay to Bashrah [Basra, Iraq] * Ezrah's Tomb, near the reputed site of the Garden of Eden * Arabs near the Tigris river * Clearing the battlefield after the battle for Kut 1917 * Railway bridge over Diala River near Baghdad * the ancient ruin of Ctesiphon, the scene of Gen. Townsend's defeat of the turks * British Monitor warship on the Tigris * Flat bottomed Swimender barge * Baghdad views * Gen. Maude reviewing troops after the fall of Baghdad * Street scene in Baghdad on Armistice Day (11 November 1918) * Group of Kurds * Arab woman * S. Sgt P. Graham, Rail and Port Section * Lieut. J. Muirhead * SSM Porter, Sgt Cook, Pte Wild * J. Muirhead and JRS Worral * FJ Mills * Officers at Right Bank Depot, winter 1918, AE Salmon, Dobson, R. Kilgour, RC Betteridge, AS Blew, JRS Worral, FJ Mills, T. Hipkins * 50,000 gallons of petrol on fire at Right Bank * Capt Napier's gazelle * Jacko [monkey] drinking beer * Hindoo [Hindu] and Mohameddan [Muslim] butchery at Right Bank * Sgt Hopkins, Lt Mills, SSM Catt * Political officer giving Arab sheikh his first ride in a car. Lt Wattleworth on left * Entraining an Indian regiment at Hinaudi * Armenian girls * Mysore transport core [on oxen or water buffalo?] * An office dug-out * C and D section staff 1917. Cpls Ollett, Doughty, Price, Sgt Hesketh, Sgt Nuttall * Date trees, Sgt Cook on right * German railway station, Baghdad * First train of supplies leaving Baghdad for Feluja * Miss G. Lothian Bell arriving at Hinaidi Races. Col. O'Connor, Gen. Dixon * Scenes near Babylon including Nebuchadnezzar's Lion, the Gate of Ishtar or Ashtaroth, pillars supporting Nebuchadnezzar's walk from his palace to the Hanging Gardens on the Euphrates * Akar Khuf near Baghdad * views of Khazimain * officers 1917-1918, and sergeants' mess 1918 * A. Stanley Blew, Frank J. Mills, Walter C. Parsley, Lt GP Davies * Jewish girls * the arrival of the first Handley-Page [aircraft] at Baghdad en route to India. Note the monoplanes * Views of Bombay * Canadian 5-masted auxillary schooner 'Margaret Hanney', and a camouflaged ship - [dazzle] - at Basrah * Port Said * Crossing France on the way home to Blighty * modern newspaper articles about the life and work of Gertrude Bell (Miss Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell 1868-1926), whose photograph is included in this album, archaeologist, linguist, mountaineer, advisor to Winston Churchill and TE Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"). Corporal 2127 William Harold Morgan, Herefordshire Regiment, gained a commissioned and ended the war as a Captain in the Army Service Corps.

本相册由W·哈罗德·摩根上尉珍藏，其出生于伍斯特郡，定居于怀河畔罗斯附近。他身为电气工程师兼仓库主管，因第一次世界大战期间在美索不达米亚的服役表现，获颁军事类大英帝国勋章（OBE）。
相册内页均附有批注，多数照片配有说明文字。例如本相册记录了以下内容：
* 搭乘肯尼沃斯城堡号蒸汽船（SS Kenilworth Castle）从英国经南非的远洋航行
* 甲板上的拳击赛事
* 塞拉利昂
* 南非开普敦
* 军官：A·C·克拉克、G·R·伦威克
* 德班
* 祖鲁人力车夫
* 弗兰科尼亚号蒸汽船（SS Franconia），摄于其被鱼雷击中前2分钟，画面前景为尼罗河号蒸汽船（SS Nile）留下的航迹，当时正处于监听潜艇的警戒状态
* 尼罗河号蒸汽船（SS Nile），摩根搭乘该船从德班前往孟买
* 波斯湾
* 埃伦加号医疗运输船（HT Ellenga），摩根搭乘该船从孟买前往伊拉克巴士拉
* 伊兹拉之墓，位于传说中的伊甸园遗址附近
* 底格里斯河沿岸的阿拉伯民众
* 1917年库特战役结束后清理战场的场景
* 巴格达附近迪亚拉河上的铁路桥
* 泰西封古遗址——汤森将军率军击败土耳其军队的战场
* 底格里斯河上的英国浅水重炮舰
* 平底Swimender驳船
* 巴格达城市景观
* 巴格达沦陷后莫德将军检阅部队的场景
* 1918年11月11日停战日当天的巴格达街景
* 库尔德人群体
* 阿拉伯女性
* 铁路与港口分队的P·格雷厄姆上士
* J·缪尔黑德中尉
* 上士班长波特、炊事中士库克、列兵怀尔德
* J·缪尔黑德与J·R·S·沃勒尔
* F·J·米尔斯
* 右岸基地军官合影，1918年冬季，成员包括A·E·萨蒙、多布森、R·基尔古尔、R·C·贝特里奇、A·S·布卢、J·R·S·沃勒尔、F·J·米尔斯、T·希普金斯
* 右岸区域5万加仑汽油起火事件
* 内皮尔上尉的瞪羚宠物
* 猴子杰克饮用啤酒的画面
* 右岸区域的印度教与伊斯兰教屠宰场
* 霍普金斯中士、米尔斯中尉、上士班长卡特
* 政治军官带领阿拉伯酋长体验首次乘车出行，左侧为沃特尔沃思中尉
* 在希瑙迪火车站装载印度军团的列车
* 亚美尼亚女孩
* 迈索尔运输分队（使用牛或水牛驮运）
* 一处地下办公掩体
* 1917年C与D分队人员：下士奥利特、多蒂、普莱斯，中士赫斯基、中士纳托尔
* 椰枣树，右侧为库克中士
* 巴格达的德国火车站
* 首批开往费卢杰的物资列车驶离巴格达
* G·洛锡安·贝尔小姐抵达希瑙迪赛马会，同行者包括奥康纳上校、迪克森将军
* 巴比伦周边景观，包括尼布甲尼撒雄狮像、伊什塔尔门（或阿斯塔尔塔门）、连接尼布甲尼撒宫殿与幼发拉底河空中花园的支撑立柱遗迹
* 巴格达附近的阿卡尔胡夫区域
* 哈齐迈因景观
* 1917-1918年军官合影及1918年军士食堂影像
* A·斯坦利·布卢、弗兰克·J·米尔斯、沃尔特·C·帕斯利、G·P·戴维斯中尉
* 犹太女孩
* 首架途经巴格达前往印度的汉德利·佩奇（Handley-Page）飞机抵达画面，可见其单翼机布局
* 孟买城市景观
* 加拿大五桅辅助纵帆船“玛格丽特·哈尼号”（Margaret Hanney）与一艘采用眩彩伪装涂装的船只，停泊于巴士拉港
* 塞得港
* 返国途中途经法国，前往英国本土
* 关于格特鲁德·贝尔（格特鲁德·玛格丽特·洛锡安·贝尔，1868-1926）生平与事迹的现代报刊文章，本相册中附有其本人照片。贝尔为考古学家、语言学家、登山家，曾担任温斯顿·丘吉尔与T·E·劳伦斯（“阿拉伯的劳伦斯”）的顾问。
* 原列兵2127号威廉·哈罗德·摩根隶属于赫里福德郡团，后获晋升为军官，战争结束时以陆军勤务队上尉军衔退伍。