Collection: An Officer At Large (Part 1): Allenby, E allenby-5-3-00039-48861
Description
Four photographs on an album page titled "Donhead1899". The first shows a baby in a pram, presumably Bde Major Edmund Allenby's son, Michael Allenby. The photograph is taken in a garden and a thatched gazebo is in the background. The second showsa thatched cottage on a river bank. The third shows a horse, captioned "Councillor". The fourth shows a large building in its grounds. 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
