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Photo 1076/1

Record Id:

040-003190315

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003190314

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026599876.0x0000d1

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 1076/1

Title:

Beynon Collection: 'Waziristan 1917'. Photographer(s): Unknown

Scope & Content:

Brown cloth-bound photograph album measuring 265 x 203 mm, containing 48 prints inserted two to a page in window mounts, with handwritten captions beneath each print. The album contains the following inscription on the inside front cover: 'Major-General W. G. L. Beynon C.B. C.I.E. D.S.O. G.O.C. South Wazaristan Field Force, with the best compliments of his friend Baber Shum Shere Jang Bahadur Rana. June and July 1917.'

The album was presented to Major-General Sir William George Lawrence Beynon (1866-1955) by General Baber Shum Shere Jung Bahadur Rana (1888-1960) of the Nepalese Army, and records events during the campaign against the Mahsuds in South Waziristan in June to July 1917. This was the first occasion in which Nepalese troops participated in operations against the tribes of the the North-West Frontier, the men of the Mahindradal and First Nepalese Rifles Regiments being accompanied in the field by General Baber. For an account of the campaign, see General Staff Army Headquarters India (comp.), 'Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920' (Calcutta, 1921), chapters 4-5.

From the collection of General Sir William George Lawrence Benyon (1866-1955), Indian Army 1889-1919, transferred from Mss Eur D830.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003190314
040-003190315

Is part of:

Photo 1076 : Benyon Collection. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd

Photo 1076/1 : Beynon Collection: 'Waziristan 1917'. Photographer(s): Unknown

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003190314[0001]/040-003190315

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

48 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1917

End Date:

1917

Date Range:

1917

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 78 mm x 138 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Transferred item, 2000: Received from European Manuscripts, 2 November 2000 (formerly part of Mss Eur D830).

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known