“Old Castle is now used as a prison. Its walls are built of coral rock – the foundation of the whole island. The moat is deep & runs most of the way round. In places its severity is eased by laden pawpaw trees, or crowds Indian & native children playing ball on the sward in the shadow of the walls.” Exterior view of Fort Jesus on Mombasa Island. Lt. Irvine was stationed in Kenya for a period before returning to the campaign in Portuguese East Africa. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During this time he would meet Dr John W Arthur which in turn would lead to his missionary work at Chogoria in Kenya.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81762
- Dates
- 1918
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 7.1 x 10.1 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Coast Province Kenya Mombasa
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Kenya
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-97048188-1.tif
- Rights
- For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/c27dfb37bf540c83ab038c0a725c0b5c
