"3rd Pioneer Bn graves at Kandahar Cemetery. The Dressing Station was in the building. The trees ...

Accession Number P09534.017
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Harvey, William Wyatt
Date made January 1919
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

"3rd Pioneer Bn graves at Kandahar Cemetery. The Dressing Station was in the building. The trees are on the road." 'Our graves are those with oval plates. Had many a cup of hot cocoa at this station about 3am. It is situated on the road from Neuve Eglise in Belgium.' (One of a collection of photographs belonging to Lieutenant (Lt) Robert Trevor Williams and taken by Lt William Wyatt Harvey during a battlefield tour of France and Belgium, January 1919, by officers of the 3rd Pioneer Battalion. The original caption quoted in double inverted commas is by Lt Harvey. The original caption quoted in single inverted commas is by Lt Williams.)