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A Photograph Album of the Queen's Regiment
A cloth-bound album, 10 in. x 12 in. (25 cm. x 30 cm.) containing some 75 pages of photographs, 2½ in. x 4½ in. and smaller (some 500 prints in all, the majority with captions) taken or compiled by Private Edward Stacey of the 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, recording life in the regiment between 1928 and 1935. This period includes the latter part of a tour of duty in Hong Kong, the regiment's posting to Malta in March 1929, its return to Tientsin in China in October 1930, and thence to India at the end of 1934, when it was stationed at Quetta, being present at the devastating earthquake of May 1935. The photographs record parades and other activities in barracks, troops on exercise, soldiers' sightseeing expeditions in garrison towns and beyond (including a visit to Peking and the Great Wall; highlights include views of British battleships in harbour in Malta, aircraft on the flight-deck of HMS Eagle, troops deployed during the "Trouble" in Tientsin, when preparations were made by the various national contingents to resist an influx of displaced Chinese as a result of Sino-Japanese disturbances in the city, and some 70 photographs (probably not taken by Stacey) of the destruction caused at Quetta by a massive earthquake in 1935; together with approximately 50 additional photographs, unmounted and mainly without captions, taken in China and India, including several interesting group photographs of the Corps of Drums (in which Stacey served), a large parade in Tientsin, scenes in camp etc, and more views of the destruction in Quetta, some of the latter showing a light tank being used as a tractor to demolish damaged buildings, and three, taken in October 1940, of members of the regiment at Bannu on the North West Frontier; a Certified Copy of Attestation for Private Stacey, dated 1923; and a photocopy extract from a Regimental history covering the period to which the photographs relate
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A cloth-bound album, 10 in. x 12 in. (25 cm. x 30 cm.) containing some 75 pages of photographs, 2½ in. x 4½ in. and smaller (some 500 prints in all, the majority with captions) taken or compiled by Private Edward Stacey of the 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, recording life in the regiment between 1928 and 1935. This period includes the latter part of a tour of duty in Hong Kong, the regiment's posting to Malta in March 1929, its return to Tientsin in China in October 1930, and thence to India at the end of 1934, when it was stationed at Quetta, being present at the devastating earthquake of May 1935. The photographs record parades and other activities in barracks, troops on exercise, soldiers' sightseeing expeditions in garrison towns and beyond (including a visit to Peking and the Great Wall; highlights include views of British battleships in harbour in Malta, aircraft on the flight-deck of HMS Eagle, troops deployed during the "Trouble" in Tientsin, when preparations were made by the various national contingents to resist an influx of displaced Chinese as a result of Sino-Japanese disturbances in the city, and some 70 photographs (probably not taken by Stacey) of the destruction caused at Quetta by a massive earthquake in 1935; together with approximately 50 additional photographs, unmounted and mainly without captions, taken in China and India, including several interesting group photographs of the Corps of Drums (in which Stacey served), a large parade in Tientsin, scenes in camp etc, and more views of the destruction in Quetta, some of the latter showing a light tank being used as a tractor to demolish damaged buildings, and three, taken in October 1940, of members of the regiment at Bannu on the North West Frontier; a Certified Copy of Attestation for Private Stacey, dated 1923; and a photocopy extract from a Regimental history covering the period to which the photographs relate
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See illustration of two pages