Lot Essay
This album, which originally belonged to Colonel W. Lawson, documents the return of the Imperial Yeomanry and volunteers to High Wycombe from South Africa at the end of the Boer War. Colonel Lawson, the eldest son of Sir Edward Lawson, was in command of the 38th Company of the Imperial Yeomanry who trained at High Wycombe. The photographs included in this album are as follows: large format views of Niagara Falls probably by Baker, views of China and Japanese landscapes and portrait studies. There are a series of military portraits which were taken on the return of the Yeomanry. Detailed newspaper reports relate to the return of the Yeomanry and the home-coming events that took place in the summer of 1901.