Item MM 93097 Photograph - Coffins on Waggon for Recovered Bodies from Torpedoed Ship 'Persia', early 1916

Summary

Photograph depicting wagon bearing coffins for bodies recovered after the torpedoing without warning of the British steamship "Persia" by a U boat in the Eastern Mediterranean last days of 1915 or first days of 1916.

From a photograph album created by Sergeant John Lord and documenting his time in Egypt. The album was created in a lined notebook/diary type book and John Lord completely filled the album with photographs. All of the photographs are numbered and in pencil he has written captions around many of the photographs. A few of the early photographs are dated 1915. Many of the photographs depict camps, local people, street scenes, fellow soldiers at rest, horses, ambulances, hospitals and camels.

Description of Content

A white horse is harnessed to a wooden wheeled waggon with 20 dark-coloured coffins stacked on it. Other horses are in the background. The Egyptian driver sits on top of the leading coffin.