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Phototheca AfghanicaPhototheca Afghanica
The final picture of this series of 7 photographs, intended to demonstrate the ‘Screw-Gun’, shows six British gunners kneeling beside and behind the 7 Pounder RML (Rifled Muzzle Loading) gun. The names given in the letter are: No. 1. Sergeant W. Lynch, trail. He is in charge of the gun crew. No. 2. Gunner P. Thompson, r. of muzzle No .3. Gunner P. Hendley, l. of muzzle No. 4. Gunner I. Murphy, r. of breech No. 5. Gunner W. Collins, l. of breech No. 6. Bombardier W. Watkins, point of handspike
Place, date
Kabul, Sherpur Cantonment, early May 1880
Collection
Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive 1878-1880
Series
RE 116-140, Bryan Maggs Collection
RE 124
Details
Grave of Lieutenant Charles Alfred Montanaro, R.A., on the Christian Cemetery, west of Sherpur cantonment. The copy in the RAM album shows a much larger part of the original photograph, with many cut trees and mountains in the background.
Place, date
Kabul, Sherpur Cemetery, winter 1879/80
Collection
Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive 1878-1880
Series
RE 116-140, Bryan Maggs Collection
RE 125
Details
Grave of Captain James Dundas, V.C., R.E., covered with an inscribed stone. The high quality of craftsmanship of the inscription chiselled in the marble slabs of the graves is surprising. There must have been a professional sculptor among the soldiers, as Afghan sculptors would not have been able to do such work in an unknown script.   Thanks to the fact that Captain Dundas belongings, together with a set of the BS&M-photographs, were sent by his companions to the relatives of Capt. Dundas in Scotland, the only known copy of the original list of the BS&M photographs survived – which now, 130 years later, provided the possibility to reconstruct this catalogue. If Captain Dundas would have survived, most probably he would have done the same as all the other officers: he would have cut the list and glued the strips of paper below the photographs in his album …  
Place, date
Kabul, Sherpur Cemetery, spring 1880
Collection
Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive 1878-1880
Series
RE 116-140, Bryan Maggs Collection
RE 126
Details
Grave of Lieutenant Charles Nugent, R.E.
Place, date
Kabul, Sherpur Cemetery, spring 1880
Collection
Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive 1878-1880
Series
RE 116-140, Bryan Maggs Collection
RE 127
Details