Photograph album of Capt. W. Harold Morgan: Mesopotamia (9)

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.

W. 哈罗德·摩根上尉留存的影集。摩根生于伍斯特郡，定居于怀伊河畔罗斯附近。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，军事分部）。影集每一页均配有批注，绝大多数照片带有说明文字。例如本影集记录了以下内容：
* 搭乘SS 凯尼尔沃思城堡号（SS Kenilworth Castle）从英国绕行南非的海上航行之旅
* 甲板上的拳击比赛
* 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
* 于SS 弗朗科尼亚号（SS Franconia）被鱼雷击中前两分钟拍摄的画面，前景为SS 尼罗河号（SS Nile）留下的航迹，当时正执行反潜监听任务
* 摩根搭乘SS 尼罗河号（SS Nile）从德班前往孟买
* 波斯湾
* 摩根搭乘HT 埃伦加号（HT Ellenga）从孟买前往巴士拉（伊拉克巴士拉，原文标注为Bashrah）
* 伊甸园传说遗址附近的以斯拉墓
* 底格里斯河沿岸的阿拉伯人
* 1917年库特战役后清理战场
* 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
* 巴格达风貌
* 巴格达陷落之后，莫德将军检阅部队
* 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
* 铁路与港口分队上士P·格雷厄姆
* 少尉J·缪尔黑德
* 军需上士波特、库克中士、列兵怀尔德
* J·缪尔黑德与J·R·S·沃勒尔
* F·J·米尔斯
* 1918年冬季右岸仓库的军官：A·E·萨尔蒙、多布森、R·基尔古、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
* 右岸仓库一处5万加仑汽油储罐起火
* 内皮尔上尉的瞪羚
* 杰科（猴子）饮用啤酒
* 右岸的印度教与伊斯兰教屠宰场（原文标注Hindoo为Hindu的旧拼法，Mohameddan为Muslim的旧称）
* 霍普金斯中士、米尔斯少尉、军需上士卡特
* 政治军官带领阿拉伯酋长体验首次乘车之旅，左侧为沃特沃思少尉
* 在希瑙迪车站为印度团士兵送行登车
* 亚美尼亚女孩
* 迈索尔运输分队（原文标注“使用牛或水牛驮运？”）
* 办公室坑道
* 1917年C分队与D分队人员：奥勒特下士、多蒂下士、普赖斯下士、赫斯克斯中士、纳托尔中士
* 椰枣树，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场，在场的有奥康纳上校、迪克逊将军
* 巴比伦周边景致，包括尼布甲尼撒雄狮雕像、伊什塔尔门（或阿斯塔罗斯门）、连接尼布甲尼撒王宫与幼发拉底河空中花园的立柱
* 巴格达附近的阿卡尔胡夫
* 哈兹迈因景致
* 1917-1918年军官合影，以及1918年军士食堂合影
* A·斯坦利·布卢、弗兰克·J·米尔斯、沃尔特·C·帕斯利、G·P·戴维斯少尉
* 犹太女孩
* 首架汉德利-佩奇飞机抵达巴格达，正前往印度，画面中可见单翼机
* 孟买风貌
* 巴士拉港内的加拿大五桅辅助纵帆船“玛格丽特·哈尼号”与一艘采用眩目迷彩涂装的舰船
* 塞得港
* 途经法国返抵英国本土途中
* 影集中还收录了关于格特鲁德·贝尔（格特鲁德·玛格丽特·洛锡安·贝尔，1868-1926）生平与事迹的当代报纸剪报。贝尔女士是考古学家、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，其本人的照片也收录于本影集中。
* 编号2127的下士威廉·哈罗德·摩根隶属于赫里福德郡团，其后获得委任军衔，战争结束时以陆军勤务军团上尉的身份退役。

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背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集是W. Harold Morgan上尉在第一次世界大战期间于美索不达米亚服役时保存的相册，内容涵盖从英国到战区的航海旅程、战场清理、当地文化和历史遗址（如巴比伦）的摄影记录，并附有详细注释和标题。相册不仅记录了个人军事经历，还涉及重要历史人物如Gertrude Bell，具有丰富的历史、地理和文化价值，反映了战争时期的多元视角。