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'Corfu photos'

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Two envelopes, one inscribed 'Corfu photos' containing thirty-five prints and the second inscribed '35 films' - 'Corfu' containing the associated negatives. The photographs were taken 28 January - 1 February 1916, when AML was briefly stationed with the British Adriatic Mission on Corfu, then held by the French (datable from letters held at Hertfordshire Archives). Photographs include images of Serbs (images 78, 83, 86, 89, 94, 99-101); local population (images 79, 85, 90, 96, 108); an important funeral procession and attendant crowds (images 82, 84, 87, 93, 103, 106-107, 109); companion Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) officers apparently with their local guide for sightseeing in one photograph (images 80, 88, 92, 110). Sightseeing included notably the Achilleion, the palace and grounds created 1890 for Empress Elizabeth of Austria, later bought by the German Kaiser, becoming a military hospital for French and Serbs during the First World War (images 77, 91, 95, 98, 102, 111; in two of these their local guide again appears). These buildings and statues still survive, as do the Venetian Arsenal of 1716 (images 94, 104) and the Old Fortress (image 97), perhaps Arthur Martin Leake's first view of Corfu on arrival from Brindisi; on the right, the temple-like former Anglican garrison church of St George (1840).

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