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Original Photograph:  Sir Ian Hamilton Visits Camp Sewell

 Samuel Benfield Steele 1851 - 1919  [Who Was Sam Steele?]

On reverse, handwritten note by Harwood Steele, son of Samuel Steele:  "Sewell Camp visit of Sir Ian Hamilton 1911 or 1912.  Foreground L to R - Col. S. B. Steele, Gen. Sam Hughes, Gen Sir Ian Hamilton."

Camp Sewell:  Manitoba.  [Camp Hughes Military Training Site] west of Carberry, of North Cypress.  Established as Sewell Camp in 1909, it was renamed after Major-General Sir Sam Hughes, Canada's Minister of Militia and Defence, in 1915. During World War I (1914-1918), more than 38,000 troops of the Canadian Expeditionary Force trained there. Many of the soldiers later distinguished themselves at the battle of Vimy Ridge, in April 1917.

Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853-1947) Lord Kitchener's Chief of Staff during the Boer War, and was Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the unsuccessful campaign against Turkey at Gallipoli. ]

Photographer:  Not attributed. 

Original Photograph mounted on studio card:  7 3/8" x 5 1/4" Image:  7 7/16" x 3 5/16"

Price: $425 USD SOLD

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