‘Compass sketch With Cavalry Sketching case from camp at Wadi Haban up the old Himiaritic road to Jabal Harir and return by footpath from Al Masna’s’
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Reproduction of a map in black ink showing the landscape between Wadi Haban [Wādī Ḩabbān] and Jabal Harir [Jabal Ḩarīr], Yemen. The map is signed by Major Crawford, Royal Artillery, and dated 17-20 December 1903. It indicates an ascent of approximately 2,000 feet, and is marked with form lines (...
Note (with envelope) from the Commander-in-Chief in India, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, to Colonel Wilfrid Malleson
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Handwritten note (with envelope) addressed to Colonel [Wilfrid] Malleson (of the Intelligence Branch, Indian Army Headquarters), written by the Commander-in-Chief in India, Horatio Herbert Kitchener. The note refers to the ‘state of the army’, and a disagreement between Kitchener and an individu...
A Chinese rough and ready 'Sedan Chair' for the mountains. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
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View of a man being carried on a wooden chair slung over poles carried by two porters. Wingate's additional note on the conveyance reads: 'A suggestion for hill-warfare. These two men carried the man on the chair up and down 2,000 and 3,000 feet of steep mountain-side, and across rapid-flowing r...
A Chinese rough and ready 'Sedan Chair' for the mountains. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
View of a man being carried on a wooden chair slung over poles carried by two porters. Wingate's additional note on the conveyance reads: 'A suggestion for hill-warfare. These two men carried the man on the chair up and down 2,000 and 3,000 feet of steep mountain-side, and across rapid-flowing r...