Photograph album of Capt. W. Harold Morgan: Mesopotamia (8)

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（出生于伍斯特郡，居住在怀伊河畔罗斯附近）留存的一本私人相册。他曾担任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的服役表现，获颁军事类大英帝国勋章（Order of the British Empire, OBE）。该相册每一页均配有注释，绝大多数照片带有说明文字。例如本相册记录了以下内容：搭乘「肯尼尔沃斯城堡号」蒸汽船（Steam Ship, SS Kenilworth Castle）从英国经南非的远洋航行；甲板上举办的拳击比赛；塞拉利昂风貌；南非开普敦景观；军官群体：A·C·克拉克、G·R·伦威克；德班风貌；祖鲁人力车夫；「弗朗科尼亚号」蒸汽船（SS Franconia）在被鱼雷击中前2分钟的影像，画面前景为「尼罗河号」蒸汽船（SS Nile）的尾流，当时该船正执行反潜监听任务；「尼罗河号」蒸汽船，摩根搭乘该船从德班前往孟买；波斯湾景观；HT埃伦加号运输船（HT Ellenga），摩根搭乘该船从孟买前往伊拉克巴士拉；以斯拉墓，位于据信为伊甸园遗址的附近区域；底格里斯河沿岸的阿拉伯民众；1917年库特战役后的战场清障行动；巴格达附近迪亚拉河上的铁路桥；泰西封古城遗址，此处曾是汤森将军率领部队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；巴格达城市风貌；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；铁路与港口分队的上士P·格雷厄姆；少尉J·缪尔黑德；勤务中士波特、中士库克、列兵怀尔德；J·缪尔黑德与J·R·S·沃罗尔；F·J·米尔斯；1918年冬季右岸仓库的军官团队：A·E·萨尔蒙、多布森、R·基尔古尔、R·C·贝特里奇、A·S·布卢、J·R·S·沃罗尔、F·J·米尔斯、T·希普金斯；右岸地区5万加仑汽油起火事件；内皮尔上尉的宠物瞪羚；名为杰克的猴子饮用啤酒的场景；右岸地区印度教与伊斯兰教屠宰场的作业场景；中士霍普金斯、少尉米尔斯、勤务中士卡特；政治军官为阿拉伯酋长展示首次乘车体验的场景，左侧为沃特尔沃思少尉；在希瑙迪车站为印度团士兵登车送行的场景；亚美尼亚女孩群体；迈索尔运输分队（乘畜力车或水牛拖车？）；办公室防空壕；1917年C、D分队人员：奥利特、多蒂、普赖斯下士，赫斯基思中士、纳托尔中士；椰枣树，右侧为库克中士；巴格达的德国火车站；首列补给列车从巴格达出发前往费卢杰的场景；G·洛锡安·贝尔小姐抵达希瑙迪赛马会现场的场景，陪同人员包括奥康纳上校、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（或阿斯塔罗斯门）、支撑尼布甲尼撒从宫殿前往幼发拉底河空中花园步道的立柱；巴格达附近的阿卡尔胡夫；哈兹迈因地区风貌；1917-1918年的军官群体，以及1918年的中士食堂场景；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；犹太女孩群体；首架途经巴格达前往印度的汉德利·佩奇型飞机抵达场景，画面中可见单翼机；孟买城市风貌；巴士拉港内的加拿大五桅辅助纵帆船「玛格丽特·哈尼号」与一艘采用炫目迷彩涂装的船只；塞得港景观；途经法国返回英国本土的行程场景；收录于本相册的格特鲁德·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。贝尔本人为考古学家、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。编号2127的下士威廉·哈罗德·摩根，最初隶属赫里福德郡团，后获委任为军官，战争结束时以陆军勤务队上尉军衔退役。