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ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS, 'A' CORPS, WAZIRISTAN REVOLT 1938-1939 — HUGHES, Frederick Richard. [Photograph albums. Abbottabad, Bannu and Muree: 1938].
Large collection of photographs showing British troops during operations in Waziristan in 1938-1939 suppressing the uprising led by Mirza Ali Khan, known as the Faqir of Ipi. The images show damaged tanks, mobile wireless vehicles and the Royal Corps of Signallers supporting Ghurkha operations. The geographic area covered is quite large, greater than what might be considered Waziristan today, with images of the Punjab, Kashmir and the North West Frontier Province (modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). The photographer, Frederick Hughes, seems to have travelled widely, and served for a long time in the army, as there are a few photographs of Calcutta and Burma. The lot is accompanied by a small archive, including Hughes' Burma Star (along with with 3 other military and 2 service boxing medals), British Army pay books, identity cards, driving licences, and other service ephemera including a manuscript Morse Code transposition sheet for English-Japanese signal traffic.
2 albums, oblong quarto, thus: 1. 134 original photographs and photographic postcards (various sizes, but the majority 65 x 90mm), mounted on 23 leaves (170 x 235mm). Original green cloth (extremities rubbed); 2. 100 original photographs and photographic postcards (various sizes ranging from to 90 x 140mm to 65 x 90mm), mounted on 15 leaves (255 x 300mm), accompanied by 2 loose photographs. Original brown cloth, cord stitching (extremities lightly rubbed); with 74 loose photographs (various sizes from 110 x 150mm to 50 x 62mm), many with captions to verso, and an assortment of related ephemera.
Large collection of photographs showing British troops during operations in Waziristan in 1938-1939 suppressing the uprising led by Mirza Ali Khan, known as the Faqir of Ipi. The images show damaged tanks, mobile wireless vehicles and the Royal Corps of Signallers supporting Ghurkha operations. The geographic area covered is quite large, greater than what might be considered Waziristan today, with images of the Punjab, Kashmir and the North West Frontier Province (modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). The photographer, Frederick Hughes, seems to have travelled widely, and served for a long time in the army, as there are a few photographs of Calcutta and Burma. The lot is accompanied by a small archive, including Hughes' Burma Star (along with with 3 other military and 2 service boxing medals), British Army pay books, identity cards, driving licences, and other service ephemera including a manuscript Morse Code transposition sheet for English-Japanese signal traffic.
2 albums, oblong quarto, thus: 1. 134 original photographs and photographic postcards (various sizes, but the majority 65 x 90mm), mounted on 23 leaves (170 x 235mm). Original green cloth (extremities rubbed); 2. 100 original photographs and photographic postcards (various sizes ranging from to 90 x 140mm to 65 x 90mm), mounted on 15 leaves (255 x 300mm), accompanied by 2 loose photographs. Original brown cloth, cord stitching (extremities lightly rubbed); with 74 loose photographs (various sizes from 110 x 150mm to 50 x 62mm), many with captions to verso, and an assortment of related ephemera.
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Emily Pilling