Barge with artillery going up the Tigris
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2008-01-22-4

Description

Photograph: Barge with artillery going up the Tigris. Photograph of a barge crammed with limbers and 13 pdr (?) guns viewed from another vessel on the Tigris, Mesopotamia, 1915 (c). From an album of 37 photographs chiefly relating to the service of Col John Forbes Meiklejohn with 33rd Queen Victoria’s Own Light Cavalry in Mesopotamia, 1915-1916 and service with the Marri Field Force in Baluchistan, 1918. Associated with World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918) and India, North West Frontier (1918).

Campaigns

World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918)