Album of 254 photographs relating to the service of Captain (Capt) Cecil Guildford Kimmorley ...

Accession Number P11428
Collection type Photograph
Object type Album
Date made 1919
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Album of 254 photographs relating to the service of Captain (Capt) Cecil Guildford Kimmorley Judge, MC. In particular the album shows the activities of and training methods used by Dunsterforce, as well as local people and architecture in Egypt and Persia. The aim of Dunsterforce was to organize and train local groups of Georgians and Armenians to counter Turkish operations in the Caucasus. Within the album is Capt Judge's handwritten account of Dunsterforce which he has entitled "The unofficial and sad history of Dunsterforce". The album also features soldiers in Russia during the counter-revolution of 1919 and the landscape of Vladivostok.

252 items sighted in album.