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Project / Collection Europeana Collections 1914-1918 Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 24 Material Type Photographs

1. Photo 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24
Title:
Photographic Record of the Indian Army in Europe during the First World War. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Scope & Content:
A collection of 631 loose prints divided into two categories. Prints 1-356 are a selected series of enlargements from Girdwood's photographs (containing a good number of duplicates); the remainder, prints 357-631, are contact prints forming a more complete set of the series. The majority of prin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
631 photographs

2. Photo 24(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24(1)
Title:
The Dome Hospital [Brighton], showing some of the 689 beds in the whole hospital. These beautiful seaside palaces have been converted into hospitals for Indian troops, and are fitted with every modern convenience. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 photograph

3. Photo 24(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24(2)
Title:
Convalescent Indians sunning themselves, and others out for their march through the town and along the bracing sea front with the Pavilion Hospital in the background [Brighton, England]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 photograph

4. Photo 24(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24(3)
Title:
Medical staff of General Hospital for Indian troops, Pavilion and Dome, showing a portion of the Pavilion [Brighton]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of British officers, posed in front of the Brighton Pavilion. Duplicate image, but printed in landscape format, at Photo 24/(4).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 photograph

5. Photo 24(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24(4)
Title:
Medical staff of the General Hospital for Indian troops, Pavilion and Dome, Brighton. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 photograph

6. Photo 24(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24(5)
Title:
The Sikh kitchen. Turning chappaties on the gas stoves [Brighton]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Scope & Content:
Two Sikhs at work in the kitchen, probably in the hospital for Indian soldiers at Brighton. See also Photo 24/(6), which shows the same kitchen, photographed on the same occasion, but with Gurkhas cooking.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 photograph

7. Photo 24(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24(6)
Title:
The Gurkha kitchen, showing chappaties cooking on the clean and beautiful gas stoves provided for the various castes at the Hospitals. Our men appreciate the quickness and cleanliness of this fire compared with the slow lighting cow dung fires [Brighton]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Scope & Content:
Three Gurkhas at work in the kitchen at one of the hospitals for wounded Indian soldiers at Brighton. Similar to Photo 24/(5).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 photograph

8. Photo 24(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24(7)
Title:
Operation Room, Kitchener Hospital [Brighton], searching for a bullet in a wounded Indian sepoy. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Scope & Content:
Operation in progress.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 photograph

9. Photo 24(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24(8)
Title:
Electrical and Galvanic treatment room at the Kitchener Hospital, Brighton. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Scope & Content:
Caption note continues: 'The sepoy seated near the door is receiving the galvanic treatment, while the one on the cot is undergoing electrical treatment. Every scientific help is being employed to relieve the sufferings of our Indian wounded'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 photograph

10. Photo 24(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24(9)
Title:
The Dowsing Institute Radio Electrical Treatment [Brighton, England]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Scope & Content:
View in a ward, showing the equipment in use on Indian patients. Caption note continues: 'Every comfort and care that science can devise has been introduced into the Indian hospital for the care of the wounded. This electrical treatment has proved very valuable for cases of rheumatism, sciatica, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 photograph