Train Station at San Giovanni di Manzano, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1915 (assumed to be) - May 1916
Materials
Photographic paper attached to cartridge paper page of album
Measurements
78 x 112 mm
Place of origin
San Giovanni di Manzano
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 610239.8
Summary
A monochrome photograph showing the station building at San Giovanni di Manzano, Italy. In the foreground three military, motorised vehicles are parked outside the station. Ten members of the military wearing caps and greatcoats are standing in front of the vehicles. The road in the foreground appears to be a sheet of mud. Undated but assumed to be late 1915 due to its sequential position in the album. Photograph Number 6 of 20 photographs, on Page 6 of Edith Teresa Hulton’s Personal Album: Zona di Guerra October 1915 – May 1916 (see CMS Number 610239.1). Edith Teresa Hulton (1890-1972), later Lady Berwick, worked as a Red Cross volunteer in a variety of locations in the Italian war zone during World War I. She married Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick of Attingham (1877-1947) on 30th June 1919 in Venice, Italy.
Provenance
8th Lady Berwick collection; bequeathed to the National Trust by Edith Teresa Hulton, Lady Berwick (1890-1972).
Marks and inscriptions
Below the photograph: Stazione s.Giovanni di Manzano