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Photo 1052

Record Id:

032-003165373

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003165373

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026374023.0x00027e

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 1052

Title:

Pattle Collection: Burmese Views. Photographer(s): Unknown

Scope & Content:

Collection of 13 loose prints relating to the career of Ernest Godfrey Pattle (1883-1963), Indian Civil Service, Burma. The photographs can be broken down into the following categories: (1-3) panoramic photographs of a military parade in Burma (probably Yenangyaung) at the end of the First World War, (4-7) panoramic photographs of the Yenangyaung Oil Fields, 1920s, (8) parade of volunteers at Yenangyaung, [?]1920s, (9-10) E.G. Pattle and others at Yenangyoung, 1920s, (11) formal portrait group of office staff of the Warden of the Burma Oilfields at Yenangyaung, c. 1933, (12) formal group of office staff with E.G. Pattle, when he was District Magistrate, Rangoon, 1930s, (13) snapshot group of Ernest and Beatrice Pattle with Denis Phelips, at The Grange, Salisbury, 1957.

Ernest George Pattle was educated at Merchant Taylor's School and St John's College, Oxford, before entering the Indian Civil Service and being posted to Burma in 1908 as an Assistant Commissioner at Shwebo. From 1922-23 he was in China studying the Chinese language and served as Senior Warden of the Burma Oilfields at Yenangyaung from 1927-33. From 1933-37 he was Commissioner of Magwe Division and was Financial Commissioner, Rangoon in 1938. He left Burma on leave in 1938 and did not return owing to ill-health. He received permission to retire in 1941.

Process = Printing-out paper, gelatin silver prints

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003165373

Is part of:

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Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003165373

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

13 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Start Date:

1918

End Date:

1957

Date Range:

1918-1957

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 80 mm x 80 mm to 287 mm x 242 mm]

Source of Acquisition:

Presented by Brian Baxter, Deputy Curator, REME Museum, Aborfield, Berkshire, August 1998.

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known