Photograph album of Capt. W. Harold Morgan: Mesopotamia (37)

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.

本数据集为W·哈罗德·摩根上尉（Capt. W. Harold Morgan）留存的私人相册。摩根上尉出生于伍斯特郡，定居于韦利河畔罗斯镇附近，职业为电气工程师与仓库主管，因第一次世界大战期间在美索不达米亚地区的服役表现，获颁军事分部大英帝国勋章（OBE）。相册每页均带有批注，绝大多数照片配有详细说明文字，记录内容如下：
• 搭乘SS肯尼沃思城堡号从英国经南非绕行的远洋航程
• 甲板上举办的拳击比赛
• 塞拉利昂
• 南非开普敦
• 军官：AC·克拉克、GR·伦威克
• 德班
• 祖鲁人力车夫
• 于遭鱼雷击中前2分钟拍摄的SS弗兰科尼亚号，画面前景为SS尼罗河号留下的航迹，当时正执行反潜巡逻任务
• 摩根从德班前往孟买所搭乘的SS尼罗河号
• 波斯湾
• 摩根从孟买前往伊拉克巴士拉所搭乘的HT埃尔恩加号（原文标注为Bashrah，为巴士拉的旧译）
• 据信为伊甸园遗址附近的以斯拉墓
• 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
• 泰西封古城遗址——汤森将军率军击败土耳其军队的古战场
• 航行于底格里斯河上的英国监视级炮舰
• 平底Swimender驳船
• 巴格达城市景观
• 巴格达陷落之后，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
• 库尔德人群像
• 阿拉伯女性
• 铁路与港口分队S·P·格雷厄姆中士
• J·缪尔黑德中尉
• SSM·波特、库克中士、威尔列兵（SSM为军士长军衔缩写）
• J·缪尔黑德与JRS·沃勒
• FJ·米尔斯
• 1918年冬季右岸仓库的军官团队：AE·萨尔蒙、多布森、R·基尔古尔、RC·贝特里奇、AS·布鲁、JRS·沃勒、FJ·米尔斯、T·希普金斯
• 右岸地区5万加仑汽油起火事件
• 内皮尔上尉饲养的瞪羚
• 名为杰科的猴子饮用啤酒的画面
• 右岸地区印度教与穆斯林屠宰场场景
• 霍普金斯中士、米尔斯中尉、卡特军士长
• 政治军官带领阿拉伯酋长体验首次乘车出行，左侧为沃瑟沃斯中尉
• 在希瑙迪车站为印度军团装载列车的场景
• 亚美尼亚女孩群像
• 迈索尔运输分队（以牛或水牛作为运力）
• 地下办公掩体
• 1917年C、D分队人员：奥利特、多蒂、普莱斯下士，赫斯克特中士、纳托尔中士
• 椰枣树景观，右侧为库克中士
• 巴格达的德国火车站
• 首列运送物资的列车从巴格达出发前往费卢杰
• G·洛锡安·贝尔女士抵达希瑙迪赛马会现场，陪同人员为奥康纳上校、迪克逊将军
• 巴比伦周边景观，包括尼布甲尼撒雄狮雕像、伊什塔尔门（或亚斯他录门）、连接尼布甲尼撒宫殿与幼发拉底河空中花园的柱廊
• 巴格达附近的阿卡库夫地区景观
• 哈兹迈因地区景观
• 1917-1918年军官团队与1918年军士食堂影像
• A·斯坦利·布鲁、弗兰克·J·米尔斯、沃尔特·C·帕斯利、GP·戴维斯中尉
• 犹太女孩群像
• 首架汉德利·佩奇飞机飞抵巴格达的场景，该机正前往印度，画面中可见单翼机
• 孟买城市景观
• 巴士拉港内的加拿大五桅辅助纵帆船“玛格丽特·哈尼号”与一艘采用炫目迷彩涂装的舰船
• 塞得港
• 返国途经法国境内时的场景（“Blighty”为英军俚语，指代英国本土）
相册中还收录了关于格特鲁德·玛格丽特·洛锡安·贝尔（1868-1926）生平与事迹的当代报纸剪报。贝尔女士为考古学家、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，相册内亦包含她的肖像照片。
编号2127的下士威廉·哈罗德·摩根隶属于赫里福德郡团，后获军官委任，战争结束时以陆军勤务队上尉军衔退役。