Album Of 21 Postcard Sized Photos China 1925/26 RSC Pte Warne Tour Of Duty
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:34296 | Colour: Black & White |
| Subject: China | Singles/ Sets: Sets |
| Original/ Reprint: Original Print | Date of creation: 1920s |
A vintage 1925/26 Concertina Album of 21 postcard sized photographs 3 or 4 being postcards. Fully annotated. Front inscription reads Private Fred Warne Royal Corps of Signals - A Record of a Tour of Duty in China in the Years 1925-26. The notes are as follows 'Corner of Shanghai After Rebel Shelling' 'Shanghai Docks - British army Sand Bagged Guard Position. Junks & Warships in River' 'On the Look Out for Trouble - Military Barrier at a Concession Entry' 'Another Entrance, Another ...Barrier' 'Russian Naval Sentries with Machine Gun' 'Bandits Corpses Awaiting Burial' 'Chinese Regular (War Lord) Troops Deployed - Some Firing on Rebels (Koomintang)' 'British Concession Check Point with Army and Police (Some Police were Chinese employed by British' ' Captures Rebels Facing Firing Squad' ' Another Method of Execution - Slow Hanging' 'Rebel Captured About to be Shot' 'Execution by Sword in Shanghai Prison''Public Sword Execution of a Rebel in Foochow Street, Shanghai' 'Street Scene After Public Execution''Body Left in Street after Public Execution' Decapitated Head Hung on Post' 'Head of Executed Criminal Hung in Tree' 'Chinese Beggar shot by Cantonese after a Raid' 'A Murderer Sentenced to Death - Death of the Thirteen Cuts' (£ of these)' 'Captured Rebel Saying His Prayers Before Being Beheaded' Album measures 11 cm by 15.5 cm. As you may glean from the titles some of the cards are very graphic - torture and beheadings which are not for the faint hearted. Please be advised that they are brutal. All the photos and postcards are annotated in ink on the back. Many photos stamped YOSHISAKA 21 Chapoo Road Shanghai.
