60842: Photograph album of Capt. W. Harold Morgan: Mesopotamia

<p dir="ltr">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.</p> <p>Each page is annotated, most photos are captioned. For example the album records:<br> * the sea voyage from Britain around South Africa on SS Kenilworth Castle<br> * boxing matches on the deck<br> * Sierra Leone<br> * Cape Town, South Africa<br> * Officers: AC Clarke, GR Renwick<br> * Durban<br> * Zulu rickshaw men<br> * SS Franconia taken 2 minutes before it was torpedoed. The wash of the SS Nile in foreground, listening for submarines.<br> * SS Nile, on which Morgan travelled from Durban to Bombay<br> * Persian Gulf<br> * HT Ellenga, on which Morgan travelled from Bombay to Bashrah [Basra, Iraq]<br> * Ezrah's Tomb, near the reputed site of the Garden of Eden<br> * Arabs near the Tigris river<br> * Clearing the battlefield after the battle for Kut 1917<br> * Railway bridge over Diala River near Baghdad<br> * the ancient ruin of Ctesiphon, the scene of Gen. Townsend's defeat of the turks<br> * British Monitor warship on the Tigris<br> * Flat bottomed Swimender barge<br> * Baghdad views<br> * Gen. Maude reviewing troops after the fall of Baghdad<br> * Street scene in Baghdad on Armistice Day (11 November 1918)<br> * Group of Kurds<br> * Arab woman <br> * S. Sgt P. Graham, Rail and Port Section<br> * Lieut. J. Muirhead<br> * SSM Porter, Sgt Cook, Pte Wild<br> * J. Muirhead and JRS Worral<br> * FJ Mills<br> * Officers at Right Bank Depot, winter 1918, AE Salmon, Dobson, R. Kilgour, RC Betteridge, AS Blew, JRS Worral, FJ Mills, T. Hipkins<br> * 50,000 gallons of petrol on fire at Right Bank<br> * Capt Napier's gazelle<br> * Jacko [monkey] drinking beer<br> * Hindoo [Hindu] and Mohameddan [Muslim] butchery at Right Bank<br> * Sgt Hopkins, Lt Mills, SSM Catt<br> * Political officer giving Arab sheikh his first ride in a car. Lt Wattleworth on left<br> * Entraining an Indian regiment at Hinaudi<br> * Armenian girls<br> * Mysore transport core [on oxen or water buffalo?]<br> * An office dug-out<br> * C and D section staff 1917. Cpls Ollett, Doughty, Price, Sgt Hesketh, Sgt Nuttall<br> * Date trees, Sgt Cook on right<br> * German railway station, Baghdad<br> * First train of supplies leaving Baghdad for Feluja<br> * Miss G. Lothian Bell arriving at Hinaidi Races. Col. O'Connor, Gen. Dixon<br> * 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<br> * Akar Khuf near Baghdad<br> * views of Khazimain<br> * officers 1917-1918, and sergeants' mess 1918<br> * A. Stanley Blew, Frank J. Mills, Walter C. Parsley, Lt GP Davies<br> * Jewish girls<br> * the arrival of the first Handley-Page [aircraft] at Baghdad en route to India. Note the monoplanes<br> * Views of Bombay<br> * Canadian 5-masted auxillary schooner 'Margaret Hanney', and a camouflaged ship - [dazzle] - at Basrah * Port Said<br> * Crossing France on the way home to Blighty<br> * 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<br> Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia").</p> <p>Corporal 2127 William Harold Morgan, Herefordshire Regiment, gained a commissioned and ended the war as a Captain in the Army Service Corps.</p>