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Photograph album of Capt. W. Harold Morgan: Mesopotamia (20)

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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(Capt. W. Harold Morgan)留存,其出生于伍斯特郡,定居于罗斯昂怀(Ross-on-Wye)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,获颁大英帝国勋章(Order of the British Empire,OBE)军事分部。相册每页均附有批注,绝大多数照片配有说明文字。本相册记录的内容示例如下: * 搭乘SS肯尼沃斯城堡号(SS Kenilworth Castle)从英国经南非的远洋航行 * 甲板上的拳击比赛 * 塞拉利昂 * 南非开普敦 * 军官:AC·克拉克(AC Clarke)、GR·伦威克(GR Renwick) * 德班 * 祖鲁人力车夫 * SS弗朗孔西亚号(SS Franconia)被鱼雷击中前2分钟的影像,前景为SS尼罗河号(SS Nile)的尾流,当时正在监听潜艇动向 * SS尼罗河号,摩根搭乘该船从德班前往孟买 * 波斯湾 * HT埃伦加号(HT Ellenga),摩根搭乘该船从孟买前往巴士拉(伊拉克巴士拉,原文标注为Bashrah) * 埃兹拉墓(Ezrah's Tomb),位于传说中的伊甸园遗址附近 * 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(Ctesiphon)古城遗址——汤森德将军击败土耳其军队的战场 * 底格里斯河上的英国Monitor级炮舰(Monitor warship) * 平底Swimender驳船(Swimender barge) * 巴格达街景 * 巴格达沦陷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 * S·P·格雷厄姆参谋中士(S. Sgt P. Graham),铁路与港口分队成员 * J·缪尔黑德中尉(Lieut. J. Muirhead) * SSM波特军士长、库克中士、二等兵怀尔德(SSM Porter, Sgt Cook, Pte Wild) * J·缪尔黑德与JRS·沃勒尔(JRS Worral) * FJ·米尔斯(FJ Mills) * 1918年冬季右岸基地的军官:AE·萨尔蒙(AE Salmon)、多布森(Dobson)、R·基尔古尔(R. Kilgour)、RC·贝特里奇(RC Betteridge)、AS·布鲁(AS Blew)、JRS·沃勒尔、FJ·米尔斯、T·希普金斯(T. Hipkins) * 右岸5万加仑汽油起火事件 * 内皮尔上尉的瞪羚 * 杰科(Jacko,猴子)饮用啤酒 * 右岸的印度教(原拼写为Hindoo,现拼写为Hindu)与穆斯林(原拼写为Mohameddan,现拼写为Muslim)屠宰场 * 霍普金斯中士、米尔斯中尉、SSM卡特军士长(SSM Catt) * 政治官员为阿拉伯酋长提供首次乘车体验,左侧为沃特尔沃思中尉(Lt Wattleworth) * 在希纳伊迪(Hinaudi)车站登车的印度军团 * 亚美尼亚女孩 * 迈索尔运输队(Mysore transport core,疑似使用牛或水牛作为运力) * 地下掩体办公室(dug-out office) * 1917年C与D分队人员:下士奥利特(Ollett)、多蒂(Doughty)、普莱斯(Price)、赫斯基思中士(Sgt Hesketh)、纳托尔中士(Sgt Nuttall) * 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(Feluja) * G·洛锡安·贝尔小姐(Miss G. Lothian Bell)抵达希纳伊迪赛马会现场,奥康纳上校、迪克逊将军陪同 * 巴比伦周边景观,包括尼布甲尼撒雄狮像、伊什塔尔门(或阿斯塔尔撒门)、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(Akar Khuf) * 哈齐迈因(Khazimain)景观 * 1917-1918年的军官与1918年士官食堂 * A·斯坦利·布鲁(A. Stanley Blew)、弗兰克·J·米尔斯(Frank J. Mills)、沃尔特·C·帕斯利(Walter C. Parsley)、GP·戴维斯中尉(Lt GP Davies) * 犹太女孩 * 首架汉德利·佩奇(Handley-Page)飞机抵达巴格达,途经印度,图中可见单翼机(monoplanes) * 孟买景观 * 巴士拉港内的加拿大五桅辅助纵帆船“玛格丽特·哈尼号”(Canadian 5-masted auxiliary schooner 'Margaret Hanney')与采用[dazzle(眩目迷彩)]的伪装舰船 * 塞得港(Port Said) * 返英途中途经法国(英国士兵俚语中称本土为“布莱蒂(Blighty)”) * 关于格特鲁德·玛格丽特·洛锡安·贝尔(1868-1926,即格特鲁德·贝尔)生平与工作的现代报刊文章,本相册中附有她的照片。贝尔是考古学家、语言学家、登山家,同时也是温斯顿·丘吉尔与T·E·劳伦斯(“阿拉伯的劳伦斯”)的顾问。 * 军衔为2127号下士的威廉·哈罗德·摩根隶属于赫里福德郡团,后获得军官委任,战争结束时以陆军勤务军团(Army Service Corps)上尉军衔退伍。
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