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Catalogue of Bromhead Collection - BRO/3/1-BRO/3/15 item descriptions

BRO/3/1 - Bromhead's photographs from Russia (1916)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 12 photographs taken by Bromhead in Russia. Captions of photographs where they exist and are legible are as follows -

• "German blockhouse taken by 9th Siberian Regt."
• "Reg[imenta]l communication men"
• "3rd Division, 12th Army, women working on bunker"
• "Gen. Priturki decorating a man in trenches near front"
• "Dead Russian soldier 284th Irupchevski Regt.
• "Priest on battlefield looking for dead to bury
• "Gen[eral] Priturki G[eneral] O[fficer] C[ommanding] 3rd Division Siberian Sept 1916"
• "First dead Hun on Kovel Road below Lutzk..." (July 1916)

(Languages) English

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BRO/3/2 - Bromhead's photographs from Russia depicting mountain roads being cleared of snow (circa) (1916)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 18 photographs taken by Bromhead in Russia and depicting scenes of mountain roads being cleared of snow and repaired by Russian troops

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BRO/3/3 - Bromhead's photographs of Russia depicting Austrian prisoners of war and Russian troops' entertainment (1916)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 23 photographs taken by Bromhead in Russia of Austrian prisoners of war and of Russian troops entertainment. Captions of photographs where they exist and are legible are as follows (translated from Russian) -

• "A[nti] A[ircraft] M[achine] G[uns] hand made from parts of a harvesting machine"
• "Austrian prisoners"
• "Column of a Honved Regiment captured 9 Dec 1916"
• "Deputation from Kuynatsk bringing gifts to the 408th Kuznetsk Regt."
• "Entertainment in the Crest"
• "Observation post of a battery of 13th art[illery]"
• "Camp of refugees from Lutsk"
• "Adj. General Brusilov. Parade in November 1915"
• "Refugees from Lutsk"
• "Artillery in position"
• "Armoured train staff of 102nd [?] Division"
• "Soldiers' games" (6 photographs)
• "Observation post"
• "Soldiers' games"
• "Fun in position"
• "Refugees in Lutsk"
• "Cavalry regiment resting"

(Languages) Russian

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BRO/3/4 - Bromhead's photographs of Russia depicting parades and medal awards (1916-1917)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 12 photographs taken by Bromhead in Russia of parades and medal awards. Captions of photographs where they exist and are legible are as follows (translated from Russian) -

• "Inspection of the regiment by the corps commander"
• "Corps commander inspects the regiment"
• "407th Saranskii Infantry Regiment"
• "Inspection of the regiment by the corps commander"
• "407th Saranskii Infantry Regiment"
• "Rerno"
• "Maj.Gen Mikulin, commander of 102nd Inf[antry] Div."
• "Distribution of awards by the corps commander" (4 photographs)
• "Inspection of the troops by the corps commander"

(Languages) Russian

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BRO/3/5 - Bromhead's photographs probably depicting the Turkish front (1916)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 24 photographs taken by Bromhead probably depicting scenes from the Turkish front in Trebizond, Eastern Turkey

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Condition: photographs curled

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BRO/3/6 - Bromhead's photographs from fronts in the Baltic, Finland and Romania (1916-1917)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 19 photographs taken by Bromhead depicting scenes from the fronts in the Baltic, Finland and Romania. Captions where they exist and are legible are as follows -

• "Self and Baron Wolf, Tarvasgus [Finland]"
• "N. front Sept 1916 Riga"
• "Sept 7 1916. Near Kemmern 11th Siberian Rgt front line trenches"
• "Group of staff 70th Division Politzi"
• "Baron de Straelborn, Self, Capt Slor‚ and Baron Wolff, Tarvasgus 10/8/16 othereabouts"
• "Tarvasgus [Finland] 10/8/16"

(Languages) English & Russian

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BRO/3/7 - Bromhead's photographs mainly from the Romanian front (1917)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 22 photographs taken by Bromhead depicting scenes mainly from the Romanian front (a few from Austria-Hungary) and the mission's work there. Captions where they exist and are legible are as follows -

• "King of Romania's summer palace Bikazul"
• "Men of Death Battalion near Bikazul over Austrian frontier address by Fitz Williams"
• "One of my poor billets a plank bed in a cell of barracks prison at Folticheni..."
• "Nielson and Porter at Stavka on balcony"
• "Nielson and Porter on balcony of billet and Stavka"
• "A bivouac by a well our lorrie..."
• "Folticheni Romania, barracks used as Corps HQ, screen erected against trapeze in centre"
• "Car breakdown on way to Piatra..."
• "Col Janoff & officers of 5th Regt at Michaimeshti"
• "Sappers preparing poles for screen in Poltinoara, Bukovina, Austria"
• "Front - Keyes' Cossack orderly Pashenko"
• "The lorries with Keyes, Cossack & Greengrass near Piatra"
• "Bikazul looking opposite direction"
• "Poltinoasa pitch fixing screen picture shown from lorrie in rear, 15th Regt. 4 Divs. Aug 13 1917"
• "Greengrass and Prout fixing screen before erection at Poltinoasa, Russian sappers a very useful lot at this place - are helping"
• "Group at Roman Hospital, Keyes & Fitz Williams standing in rear. Two other Fitzwilliams brothers both doctors in hospital are sitting in front row"
• "Pitch at Bikazul: kings summer palace in background, Romania"
• "British Hospital, Romania, screen erected, seats for wounded"
• "Erecting screen at Romanian British Hospital entrance, gate behind"

(Languages) English & Russian

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BRO/3/8 - Bromhead's photographs probably from the Ukrainian front (1916-1917)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 4 photographs taken by Bromhead depicting scenes probably from the Ukrainian front. Captions where they exist and are legible are as follows -

• "Batch of German prisoners first taken - I helped interrogate them. They were very docile and communicative - said they had first been rushed down from Bavanovitchi to help the Austrians. They were all fit and well equipped"
• "The first dead German I saw on Kovel Road just beyond the bridge were hundreds of other trenches all full of corpses"
• "With a reserve corps in a Polish Chateau at Zabarol"

(Languages) English

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BRO/3/9 - Bromhead's photographs of Bulgarian towns and cities (1917)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 51 photographs (numbered 4-86 with some missing) taken by Bromhead depicting what are presumably Bulgarian towns and cities. Captions where they exist, (most are not captioned) are as follows -

• "Group of naval officers"
• "Ministry building"
• "Alexander Nevsky Church, Bulgarian Orthodox with 6thc St Sophia in background"
• "Sofia, Bulgaria, Naroday Salmanie Square, Tsar Alex II of Russia monument of the liberator"
• "Orthodox Russian Church St Nicholas"

(Languages) English

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Condition: photographs badly curled, a few damaged

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BRO/3/10 - Copies of Bromhead's photographs made by Imperial War Museum (1916-1917;1989-1990)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 88 photographs which are copies made in 1989-1990 by the Imperial War Museum. There appear to be copies of many of the photographs from BRO/3/1 and BRO/3/7 as well as the small number of photographs included with BRO/1/1. In addition there are a number of photographs that are not a part of other items in this collection. These are prints made from original negatives whose prints had not survived. They contain a number of scenes of the mission at work.

See also: the Imperial War Museum has a complete set of copies of the photographs from the Bromhead Collection

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BRO/3/11 - Photographs mainly of the Womens Death Battalion (1916-1917)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 15 photographs, some professionally produced. They are mainly of the Womens Death Battalion but there is also one of Bromhead in a horse and carriage and 2 of Batum, Turkey

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BRO/3/12 - Russian "Kodak" photograph wallets (1916-1917)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 2 Russian "Kodak" photograph wallets

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BRO/3/13 - Russian and Finnish postcards (1916-1917)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: 21 Russian and Finnish postcards some depicting military scenes

(Languages) Finnish & Russian

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BRO/3/14 - Bromhead's photographs from his Russian mission and of his meeting with King George V (1916-1918)

Previous number: item 6

Contents: 16 photographs, 8 of which are of Bromhead's February 1917 meeting with King George V in Britain (also in BRO/1/1; Also contains three postcards and a copy of a pamphlet used by Bromhead in his Italian mission in 1918 which contains an endorsement by King George V and was used by the British Military Cinematographic Mission to establish their credentials. Captions of other photographs where they exist are as follows -

• "Keyes - Fitzwilliams & Gen. Filimonoff & staff standing on Austrian frontier"
• "Gen Filimonoff addressing Battalion of Death near Bikazul. Unfortunately a double exposure. but it gives an idea of the scene"
• "Barricades. Nevsky prospect Leningrad 1917"
• "A mon cher ami de tant mon coeur, Captaine Michel de Jadkewitsch, le 20 Aout 1916 Russia Riga"
• "Self with two staff officers at Folticheni, 9th Army 40th Corps, one of these I met last year at Satiev"

(Langauges) English & French & Italian

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BRO/3/15 - Bromhead's photographs from his Russian mission and of his meeting with King George V and also a few related papers and newscuttings (1916-1917)

Previous number: item 5

Contents: 4 photographs, 2 of which are of Bromhead's February 1917 meeting with King George V in Britain (also in BRO/1/1 and BRO/3/14; Also contains a few related papers comprising copies of the letter from King George V which Bromhead took with him to Russia in order to establish his credentials, press cuttings from "The Times" (1916) and a copy of "The Illustrated London News" (Feb 1917). Captions of the other photographs where they exist are as follows -

• "With very best wishes to Captain A G Bromhead, from officers of the 421 Tsarskoe Selo Regiment and Rovno Garrison, Rovno, 21st July 1916"

(Languages) English

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