Regulus 1 Posted 17 January , 2009 Share Posted 17 January , 2009 After the photo albums on the Central Powers in Palestina, now a very large album on the British troops : Part 1 is now under construction. http://www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl/viewtopic.php?t=17622 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regulus 1 Posted 17 January , 2009 Author Share Posted 17 January , 2009 First 100 photo's are on line, second part starts here : http://www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl/viewtopic.php?t=17623 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regulus 1 Posted 17 January , 2009 Author Share Posted 17 January , 2009 3rd and last part starts here : http://www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl/viewtopic.php?t=17624 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cahoehler Posted 18 January , 2009 Share Posted 18 January , 2009 Johan Weer eens baie dankie. Two very nice images of the ubiquitous 4.7-inch guns on extemporized carriages - "Jericho Jane" and "Nablus Lizzie". Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 18 January , 2009 Share Posted 18 January , 2009 Once again, thanks for posting these historical pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbie4798 Posted 18 January , 2009 Share Posted 18 January , 2009 great Johan, thanks for sharing with us james Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnshep Posted 18 January , 2009 Share Posted 18 January , 2009 Johan The pictures you have posted yesterday and today are truly amazing, not just in the way they bring history to life but in the quality of the photography which in my opinion is at times of the highest order. Many thanks for the trouble you have taken to post them. My father who was in the Dorset Yeomanry was a great raconteur of his experiences in Gallipoli and Palestine and having listened to his stories on perhaps too many times as a child I feel I know some of the places in the pictures you posted yesterday (El Arish, Gaza, Ramleh, Beersheba) as if they were towns and villages in Dorset. Its nice to see what they really looked like at the time he was there. The pictures of the advance on Jerusalem brings to mind a story he told about a private from the Dorset Yeomanry who was sheltering from terrible weather under a rock with an Australian padre within sight of the city . Thoroughly fed up the padre was heard to say 'when I go back to Australia, if anybody wants me to sing Jerusalem I will ring his bloody neck'. (Transcript of interview with Peter Liddle, Brotherton Library). I would be interested to learn more of the provenance of these albums? Is anything known about the photographer or the ownership of the albums in the intervening years? All the best John PS I was struck by the contrast between the elation at the capture of Jerusalem and the unfolding of the divisions in the immediate post war years leading to the terrible situation in the headlines of today. Looking at your pictures it seemed to have the inevitablilty of a Greek tragedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regulus 1 Posted 18 January , 2009 Author Share Posted 18 January , 2009 John, The album is in very good ownership, the Library of Congress in Washington DC ! I have the German album in high resolution also, and soon expect to have the British album in the same quality. There are no copyright restraints on them and they can be used freely. They are indeed, as you mentioned, most interesting and really unique documents. And a Greek tragedy the situation nowadays is indeed ! Best from Johan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 18 January , 2009 Share Posted 18 January , 2009 Well done Regulus; there's a lot of hard work there in all that reproduction The albums are made up of shots from the Matson collection and the full collection "includes more than 13,700 glass and film negatives" see http://memory.loc.gov/pp/matpchtml/matpcabt.html where you will also find the search engine You have to be patient with the latter and may have to keep trying variations of your request before you get what you want but keep trying because it's a great resource You also have to be careful of the captions though eg: Photograph No.1 (on this British thread) is not Brig. General C. F. Watson and Lady Watson, ca. 1917 but is, I believe, a picture of General and Lady Allenby Carl, Your comments about Jericho Jane are of interest I am currently reading about the DMC who were on the receiving end of Jericho Jane which 'shelled Ghoraniyeh, Jericho, and other back areas at a range of some 20,000 yards' By the way Jericho Jane also had 'two wicked sisters' making life difficult for the allies in the valley. Have you positively identified the gun from the photograph, as being a 4.7? The DMC history was written by Lt-Col the Hon R.M.P. Preston DSO, who thought that the gun(s) were 6-inch Best regards Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy.72 Posted 18 January , 2009 Share Posted 18 January , 2009 Some fabulous pictures. Shows how much of a art photography was and how spectacular the pictures could be. If only my Great-Grandfather's unit was pictured (189th Heavy Battery RGA). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regulus 1 Posted 18 January , 2009 Author Share Posted 18 January , 2009 Just ran into these, thanks to the link given by Michael : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cahoehler Posted 19 January , 2009 Share Posted 19 January , 2009 . . . positively identified the gun from the photograph, as being a 4.7? The DMC history was written by Lt-Col the Hon R.M.P. Preston DSO, who thought that the gun(s) were 6-inch Michael Only on the admittedly slender evidence that the guns do not look like 6-inch guns (the proportions are wrong) and the 6-hole steel disc wheels look like the wheels made in the Salt River (Cape Town) railway workshops at the end of 1914 / beginning of 1915. (Hogg, I V and Thurston, L F British Artillery Weapons and Ammunition 1914-1918, (London 1972) on page 109 and Australian War Memorial image H10729) or even on the Boer War era 4.7-inch guns used for gun drill on Whale Island by the Royal Marine Artillery pre-WW1 and near Antwerp in 1914. Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 19 January , 2009 Share Posted 19 January , 2009 quote: Just ran into these, thanks to the link given by Michael Regulus, This is indeed, one of my favourite sites and it has provided me with hours of interest While it is not all WWI, there is so much there that is of the Great War and of interest Ones that I can remember with ease: Lt Worthington - there are three photographs - one of his battlefield grave, then his grave on Mnt Scopus (with the temp. marker) before the headstone & then with the headstone Flood; his original grave on Mnt Zion (in the Jerusalem Latin Cemetery) which is now lost and QMS E Scott - a mystery - see Thank you for bringing this to a wider attention best regards Michael ................... Carl, Thanks for your thoughts on this best regartds Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cahoehler Posted 19 January , 2009 Share Posted 19 January , 2009 Michael The third (and last ?) was "Nimrin Nelly" at http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/WH1-Sina...1-Sina237a.html Here is another view of "Jericho Jane" at http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/WH1-Stor...-StorP056a.html And then there are the mysterious wheels at Queen's House at Wei-hai-wei (courtesy bushfighter) at Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domsim Posted 20 January , 2009 Share Posted 20 January , 2009 Hi Johan The photo of the burials is very interesting as it proves that Ottoman stormtroopers did go into action. The only other photos I have seen of these helmets are in training, post war or parade situations. Thanks for posting them Cheers Dominic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnshep Posted 20 January , 2009 Share Posted 20 January , 2009 Michael Could you give us the background to the Matson collection, please? Thanks John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 21 January , 2009 Share Posted 21 January , 2009 This should be of some help to you John see http://memory.loc.gov/pp/matpchtml/matpcback.html and there some background re the American Colony here see http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/americancolony/ re their WWI see http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/americancolony/amcolony-ww1.html best regards Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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