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WD3643
- Record Id:
- 032-003268158
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003268158
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x0011ff
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD3643
- Title:
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Notebook containing notes and drawings made during the Tirah campaign, 1897-8. Artist(s): Marsh, Jeremy Taylor (1872-1944)
- Scope & Content:
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Notebook (ff.1-61) containing notes and drawings made during the Tirah campaign, 1897-8. Most pen and ink and wash, some pencil, two water-colours. Some pages blank. Album 9.5 by 15 cm.
Presented by the artist’s son, Major J.T. Marsh, 1977.
Frontis.
‘With the ‘Peshawar Column’ Tirah Expeditionary Force 1897 J.T. Marsh’.
f.1 Cavalry man in skirmish.
f.2 Horse’s head and standing soldier.
f.3 ‘Bara Fort showing Bara River 7½ miles S of Peshawar Garrison here at present (Oct: 16) Inniskilling Fusiliers. Two companies 9th Goorkhas, No 57 Field Battery and 9th Bengal Lancers’.
f.4 ‘Head Quarters. Officers Tents 9th BL Bara Fort Oct. 16 1897’.
f.5 ‘Samgakki Pass between Jamrud and Bara where Capt. Jones 4th DG was shot and Corpl. Walton 4th DG Oct: 1897’.
f.6 ‘Some Camels. Bara/97’.
f.6v ‘Ground where we were attacked when reconnoitring on Oct. 18: 1897’.
f.7 ‘Some of the wounded horses’.
f.7v ‘Camels. Oct: /97 Bara’.
f.8 List of regiments in the Peshawar Column.
f.9 ‘Peshawar column concentrated at Bara. Oct: 20/1897 Sketch taken from Bara Fort showing tanks of Peshawar water works in foreground’.
f.10v ‘Plan of Camp at Bara. Oct: /97’.
f.12 ‘Sketch from Momani showing village of Barkai and Bara River. Oct. 18 1897’.
f.13 Cavalryman. ‘9th Bengal Lancers’.
f.13v ‘A 9th BL Patrol. JTM Dec/97’.
f.14 ‘Police Post near Peshawar Water Works’.
f.14v ‘On the 18th Oct when reconnoiting towards Barkai up Bara Valley we were attacked and made to dismount a troop’.
f.15v ‘Village of Ilum Gudar. Nov. 22/97’.
f.16 ‘Transport of Peshawar Column Watering in Bara River. November 22/97’.
f.17 ‘Gundao Pass showing road on right thro the pass made by Pioneers. Nov: 24 1897’.
f.18 ‘Ground very stony and covered with small bushes. View of Basai Hill and ground towards Bara Fort from Gundao Pass. Nov: 24 1897’.
f.19 ‘Camp of Peshawar Column at Illumgudr. Villages of Illumgudr on right. Basai Hill on left. Nov 24/97’.
f.20 Mules. ‘Some of the transport Nov: 1897’.
f.20v Figure studies.
f.21 ‘An officer 9th Bengal Lancers. JTM Nov. 28/97’.
f.22 ‘Illum Gudr village situated on the left bank of the Bara River, belonging to the Afridi Sipah Khels 3 miles SW of Bara and 1½ miles across the frontier. Dec: 1st 1897 JTM’.
f.22v Mounted lancers .
ff.23v, 24 Surgeon-Captains Dallas and Green attending wounded.
f.25 Bara valley with the Oxfords building a road to the river.
f.26 Fort with camels. ‘At Bara. Dec: 1897’.
f.27 ‘View of Bara Fort from our Mess Tent. Dec 21: 1897’.
f.28 Unfinished sketch.
f.29 Soldiers firing rifles.
f.30 ‘Bridge over Bara river near Mamani Camp. Dec: 30/97’.
f.30v ‘A bit of Mamani Camp. Snows in distance. January 12 1898’.
f.31v ‘4th Dragoon Guards ‘At Home’’.
f.32 ‘4th Dragoon Guards ‘Abroad’’.
f.33 Bengal Lancer officer.
f.34 ‘View of Bara river from Mamani Camp looking east Jan: 14.98’.
f.35 ‘The post at Gundao held by 2 companies 3rd Gurkhas March 10 1898’.
f.35v ‘An old bathing place on the Bara River near to the fort JTM March 1898’.
f.52v Study of rocks.
ff.53v, 54 Soldiers.
f.56v ‘Illum Gudr village’ with notes.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003268158
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003268158
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1897
- End Date:
- 1898
- Date Range:
- 1897-1898
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pencil; watercolour; pen-and-ink; wash
- Finding Aids:
- Patricia Kattenhorn, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume III, 228-229
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Marsh, Jeremy Taylor, 1872-1944
- Subjects:
- Events
Indian Army
Military - Places:
- Tirah, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan