Magic Lantern Slide: Last day in Mesopotamia. Waiting to embark for Blighty. Just after dawn
This photograph by Alfred Rowden was taken just before his journey home to England after the end of the war. Rowden was in Mesopotamia during the First World War and was not sent home until 1919 or 1920. He photographed scenes like this to record his experiences.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1960/95/1136
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Last day in Mesopotamia. Waiting to embark for Blighty. Just after dawn
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'M 884 Waiting to embark' [? - faded, illegible] on top edge; handwritten 'Last day in Mesopotamia. Waiting to embark for Blighty. Just after dawn. / A.O. Rowden. / S.C.P. M.884. M.Q.2' on masking strips
- Period Classification
- World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Date
- 1920
- Production Person Initials
- A.O.
- Production Person Surname
- Rowden
