ECL-O.79-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-O.79-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Photograph Album of the Queen's Westminster Rifles
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
Original album of black and white photographs of the Queen's Westminster Rifles, Houplines Sector, working on trenches and other activities between fighting. Photographs by 2nd Lieut. Hutchinson, who was killed in action August 1915, and assembled and annotated with extensive inscription in white ink by 2nd Lieut. Firth
Content (event)
World War, 1914-1918
Dimensions
height (actual size): 146mm
width (actual size): 185mm
width (actual size): 185mm
Inscription
Inscribed text at the end of the album
'The preceeding pages serve to illustrate the life of the soldier in the field during the quiet moments...'
'The preceeding pages serve to illustrate the life of the soldier in the field during the quiet moments...'
Material
paper
Physical description
Grey cloth-bound album with front cover inscribed in ink with identification/title, black card pages
Production
Date
1914-1915
03/1918
03/1918
History and association
Associated organisation
Eton College (Purchaser)
Object history note
Purchased from G. & D. Marrin & Sons, £250