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
77 x 112 mm
Place of origin
San Giovanni di Manzano
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 610239.9
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. A number of soldiers are standing beside 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 7 of 20 photographs, on Page 7 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: Ditto marks