Photograph album of Capt. W. Harold Morgan: Mesopotamia (19)

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.

本影集为W·哈罗德·摩根上尉（W. Harold Morgan）所留存。摩根上尉出生于伍斯特郡，定居于韦利河畔罗斯（Ross-on-Wye）附近。他身为电气工程师与军需官，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（军事分部，Order of the British Empire，OBE）。

影集每一页均附有批注，多数照片配有说明文字。本影集记录的内容包括：
* 搭乘肯尼沃斯城堡号蒸汽船（SS Kenilworth Castle）从英国绕行南非的海上航程
* 甲板拳击赛事
* 塞拉利昂风貌
* 南非开普敦街景
* 军官群体：A·C·克拉克、G·R·伦威克
* 德班风貌
* 祖鲁人力车夫
* 被鱼雷击中前2分钟拍摄的弗兰科尼亚号蒸汽船（SS Franconia）；画面前景为尼罗河号蒸汽船（SS Nile）的尾流，当时该船正在侦测潜艇
* 摩根搭乘从德班前往孟买的尼罗河号蒸汽船（SS Nile）
* 波斯湾风貌
* 埃伦加号租用运输船（HT Ellenga），摩根曾搭乘该船从孟买前往伊拉克巴士拉（Basra, Iraq）
* 以斯拉墓（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，汤森将军在此击败土耳其军队的古战场
* 底格里斯河上的英国浅水重炮舰
* 斯威明德型平底驳船
* 巴格达城市风貌
* 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
* 上士P·格雷厄姆，铁路与港口分队
* J·缪尔黑德中尉
* 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群体：A·E·萨蒙、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5万加仑汽油起火事件
* 内皮尔上尉的瞪羚
* 杰科（猴子）饮用啤酒的场景
* 右岸仓库的印度教与穆斯林屠宰场（原文Hindoo为印度教旧称，Mohameddan为伊斯兰教旧称）
* 霍普金斯中士、米尔斯中尉、军需上士卡特
* 政治军官带领阿拉伯酋长体验首次乘车出行，左侧为沃特尔沃斯中尉
* 在希瑙迪（Hinaudi）火车站为印度军团登车送行的场景
* 亚美尼亚女孩群像
* 迈索尔运输分队，疑似以牛或水牛作为驮运畜力
* 办公室坑道掩体
* 1917年C分队与D分队人员：奥利特下士、多蒂下士、普莱斯下士，赫斯基思中士、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，奥康纳上校、迪克逊将军陪同
* 巴比伦周边风貌，包括尼布甲尼撒雄狮雕像、伊什塔尔门（或称阿斯塔罗斯门）、尼布甲尼撒从宫殿前往幼发拉底河空中花园的步道支撑柱
* 巴格达附近的阿卡尔胡夫（Akar Khuf）景观
* 哈兹迈恩（Khazimain）区域风貌
* 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·戴维斯中尉
* 犹太女孩群像
* 首架韩德立·佩奇（Handley-Page）飞机抵达巴格达的场景，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’（Margaret Hanney）与一艘采用眩目迷彩（dazzle）涂装的伪装舰船
* 塞得港风貌
* 搭乘火车穿越法国，踏上返回英国本土的归途
* 现代报纸关于格特鲁德·贝尔（格特鲁德·玛格丽特·洛锡安·贝尔，1868-1926）生平与事迹的报道，本影集收录有她的肖像。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

编号2127的列兵威廉·哈罗德·摩根隶属于赫里福德郡团，后获委任为军官，并以陆军勤务兵团（Army Service Corps）上尉军衔结束一战服役。