Impressive WW1 British Photograph Album and Diary Grouping Compiled by an Officer in the Middlesex Regiment on the Western Front, Mesopotamia and Palestine, the period album we would assume was put together from period photographs after the war as it begins with images taken in Palestine in the later stages of the war. Many good images of fellow officers, local scenery, natives in traditional dress, mules, destruction of enemy equipment etc. Then the album moves onto the journey to the middle east, including images of HMS Hampshire, views from Gibraltar etc. Many good images of troops with machine guns etc. The album then leaves the middle east theatre and towards the middle of the album are some really good images taken on the Western Front, including training with the PH gas hoods, Middlesex regiment officers in the trenches and behind the front lines, picture of a sniper with trench mounted sniper rifle, no mans land with barbed wire pickets, damaged French farmhouses and towns, graves of fallen fellow officers of the Middlesex regiment, etc. The album then moves back to Palestine but for a brief selection of more images from France, this mixture of order with the images would indicate that the album, like most, was compiled after the war was over. Accompanying the album is a large amount of images on card mounts, both large format and smaller, these are mostly of the time in Mesopotamia and Palestine. The album is accompanied by two hand written diaries, but these are not easy to make out, also a framed pre-war commission document for a Second Lieutenant Grenville Brend Tait. An interesting grouping with a lot of interesting images. Viewing strongly recommended.