Watson album

Album of photographs probably taken by L P Davis. (Possibly I P Davis).

They all relate to the First World War, first in Egypt and Palestine, with a break in England, before then being posted to Belgium and France.

Many of the desert photographs are associated with medical arrangements, with the transportation of wounded soldiers on "cacelot camels", and on sledges or sandcarts; the Imperial Camel Corps; the 27th General Hospital in Cairo; care of wounded Turkish soldiers; and the New Zealand Mounted Field Ambulance.

Other desert images show a group of Scottish soldiers; Bedouin prisoners; camel convoys; transportation of soldiers across the desert on long open trains; the transportation of water tanks by camel; biplanes; and British and German tanks.

The English photographs are taken in London and Cambridge.

The Belgian and French photographs show bomb damage, particularly at Ypres, including damage to the Cathedral; the village of Bapaume after capture by New Zealand troops in 1918; Boulogne, Bertincourt, Messines and Armentieres; with one photograph of a horse laden with ammunition bogged down in a sink hole.

Source of title - Title supplied by Library

Quantity: 1 album(s).

Physical Description: Album with tan pigskin cover, entitled "Photographs" with name in lower right-hand corner "L.P. Davis" (?); 16.5 x 21.0 cm

Provenance: Donated by Ruth Watson, Auckland, 1985