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Title: Machine gun training, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1918
Date Created and/or Issued: 1918
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: 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
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Description: “Machine gun class at 3/3rd Depot, Dar es Salaam” Portrait of two soldiers of the 3/3rd King’s African Rifles lying on the ground aiming a Lewis light machine gun. ❧ 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.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 9.8 x 6.5 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-97047957-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81671
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-97047957-1.jpg
Subject: Military training
Machine guns
Military personnel
Time Period: 1918
Place: Africa
Dar es Salaam
Dar-Es-Salaam region
Tanzania
Source: Acc.12016/2 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 97047955 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Wartime and other scenes in German East Africa, 1917-1919
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