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Photograph: Railway station Quetta 1917. Lieut Mitchell’s wedding. Photograph of Lt Mitchell with a floral garland around his neck and hands in his pockets, and his wife Mrs Mitchell who has a fur muff and stole, standing in front of a train. There are several men in civilian dress standing around them, including 2/Lt Robert Francis Thomson, and other passengers boarding the train are visible. Quetta, India, 1917. The photograph has been annotated with the word ‘Self’ and an arrow pointing at Thomson. From a photograph album of 91 photographs belonging to 2/Lt Robert Francis Thomson, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, attached to 28th Light Cavalry, 1917-1919. Contains photographs taken by Thomson and colleagues. Assembled after Thomson returned from service in Persia, with photographs predominantly relating to India, Persia, Russia and Thomson’s return journey to England through Persia and Greece. A chronology provided by Thomson’s family indicates that some of the dates he ascribes to his photographs may not be correct.