Collection: An Officer At Large (Part 1): Allenby, E allenby-5-3-00029-48851
Description
8 family photographs on an album page titled "Simla" Kildare /99." The first shows a house and garden, presumably where Bde Major Edmund Allenby was living at the time. The second shows Allenby in civilian uniform. The caption reads "E.H.H.A.". The third shows a one year old child standing in a garden, presumably Allenby's son, Michael Allenby. The caption reads "The boy". The fourth shows a child standing in a garden, presumably Allenby's son, Michael Allenby. The fifth shows a house and garden, presumably where Allenby was living at the time. The sixth shows a family, a father, mother and child, presumably Allenby, his wife Adelaide Mabel Allenby and his son, Michael Allenby. The seventh shows a woman with a child, presumably Allenby's wife Adelaide Mabel Allenby and his son, Michael Allenby. The eighth shows a driveway and gates in a garden, presumably where Allenby was living at the time. 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