Collection: An Officer At Large (Part 1): Allenby, E allenby-5-3-00028-48850
Description
Photograph of a cavalry brigade lined up on a plain. Presumably in Curragh, Ireland, 1899. 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
