Photograph album relating to Thomas Alexander Brandon Grant's service in the New Zealand Medical Corps during WWI, album 2

Digital copy of a photograph album containing 48 black and white prints relating to the service of Thomas Alexander Grant on the Hospital Ship No. 2 'Marama' during World War One. Most images taken by Grant between 1915 and circa 1919. Some images are inscribed 'Photo T. Scott'.

Locations are in Greece, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Pitcairn Island and Panama.

- Views taken on board include: wounded on deck, men working the laundry press, 'light case' wounded from the Somme 1916, a burial at sea, and catching a shark.

- Views taken from the side of the ship include: sunsets over the Red Sea and off Pitcairn Island, youths diving from canoes for coins off Sierra Leone, wharf buildings on fire at Port Chalmers, hospital ship 'Aquitania', loading wounded on stretchers at Stavros 1916, army camp and boats on Suez Canal, transport ships, wharves and 'Balmoral Castle' transport ship at Cape Town, hospital ship HMNS 'Lanfranc', Port Said, a navy despatch boat in the Solent, Pedro Miguel lock, Panama Canal, an electrical coaling plant and loading the ship coal bunkers at Colon, and crowds welcoming the ship at Balboa wharf.

- Views taken on land include: a metal hospital operating trolley, a captured Bulgarian light aeroplane at Salonika April 1916, bullocks and horse carriage in Colombo, swimming at Durban beach, and damaged buildings in Dublin after the Easter Rising 1916.

- Views inscribed 'Photo T. Scott' show a rowboat coming alongside the ship, a group of men posing with a lifebuoy 'TSS Marama Dunedin'. Also includes view of Table Mountain from the sea off Cape Town inscribed 'Table Bay'.

Inscriptions: Front end leaf page is inscribed '3/1319 Sergt Alex Grant NZMC'.

Quantity: 28 digital image(s).