Collection: An Officer At Large (Part 1): Allenby, E allenby-5-3-00025-48848
Description
Two photographs on an album page titled, "Curragh camp /99". The first shows a man, left and woman on a bicycle to his right. The caption reads "Colonel Yardley, A.M.A." initials for Adelaide Mabel Allenby, Bde Major Edmund Allenby's wife.
The second shows a man in uniform on a horse. The horse is tossing its head. Other soldiers stand nearby on foot. The caption, "E.H.H.A. [Edmund Allenby] off to manoeuvres, August /99." From a photograph album compiled by Edmund Allenby. (Allenby 5/3)
Collection
An Officer At Large (Part 1): Allenby, E
Description
This first part of the photograph album Allenby 5/3 illustrates the travels of a young officer, Edmund Allenby, with revealing insights into his family life, military postings and manoeuvres in the late 1890s and 1900s. Allenby famously commanded the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine and Egypt,…
Collection Terms & Categories
- War/Campaign/Operation: Peacetime
- Region: Africa
- Region: Europe
- Theme (Main): Cultures & Customs
- Theme (Main): Daily Life
- Theme (Main): Empire & Commonwealth
- Theme (Main): Ethics, Religion & Morality
- Theme (Main): History of Photography
- Theme (Main): Natural World
- Theme (Main): Training & Education
- Theme (Main): Travel & Exploration
- Subject: Animals & The Natural World
- Subject: Boundaries & Borders
- Subject: Civilians & Civ-Mil Relations
- Subject: Family & Home
- Subject: Naval, Sea & Ships
- Subject: Parades, Drills & Manoeuvres
- Subject: Sport & Recreation
- Subject: Transport
- Subject: Weapons
- Subject: Women & Society
- Item: Photographic (album)
- Information: Visual
