cover image: Lt. Irvine and Ships Engineer, Mozambique island, Mozambique, 1918

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Lt. Irvine and Ships Engineer, Mozambique island, Mozambique, 1918

1918

“Then right down coast to Mozambique. Here is Mozambique island and castle. The Chief Engineer and I went ashore to shoot but saw nothing, but we got one snap-shot, here it is.” Portrait of Lt. Irvine, ships medical officer, and the Chief Engineer, of the S.S. Salamis a troop transport from Dar es Salaam to 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.
military personnel hunting group portraits irvine, archibald clive, missionary, chogoria, 1893-1974
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81701
Dates
1918-01/1918-02
Pages
Photographic prints, 8.7 x 6 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Mozambique Nampula islands: Ilha de Moçambique
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Mozambique
Reference
impa-a-nls-97048047-1.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/ac58e3056d309ac495d849e69a283338