Wood, Sir Elliott
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Major-General Sir Elliott Wood
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Catalogue
1. Photographic Material
Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Wood, Sir Elliott
Dates of creation: 1882-1902
Extent: 1 album
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Wood, Sir Elliott
Language: English

Major-General Sir Elliott Wood

(1844 - 1931)

1864 Joined the Royal Engineers
1882 Egyptian war, including Tel el Kebir
1884-1885 Sudan expeditions
1889-1894 Assistant Adjutant-General, Headquarters
1894-1899 Commanding Royal Engineers, Malta
1899-1902 Engineer-in-chief, South African war
1902-1905 Commanding Royal Engineers, 1st Army Corps
1906 Retired from Army


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1. Photographic Material

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Presented by R.E.H. Baily, 1967

Catalogue
1. Photographic Material
SAD.628/1-218
1882-1902
Album of photographs covering Sir Elliott Wood's army career in the Sudan and Egypt, Malta and South Africa:
SAD.628/1
British officers gathered on horseback for a hunt with hounds, led by hunt master General Alderson and also featuring Wood, Pretoria, 1901
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British troops gathered at a memorial service for Queen Victoria, during Wood's tour of inspection of defences, Harrismith, South Africa 1901
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View of the battlefield at Tel el-Kebir, during the 1882 campaign
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Sweetwater canal passing through the lines held by Arabi, Tel el Kebir 1882
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No photograph
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Cross marking trench graves where Wood read a short service before burying some of the officers, including Major Colville and Lieutenant Somerville, and men killed during the battle of Tel el-Kebir on 13 Sep 1882
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Tel el-Kebir
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Cross marking the grave of Lieutenant D. S. Kays, 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry, killed during the battle of Tel el-Kebir on 13 Sep 1882
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Dhahabiyah, Estelle, possibly sailing on the Sweetwater canal, after the battle of Tel el-Kebir
SAD.628/19
Feluccas sailing on the Nile in front of the Qasr al-Nil barracks. Photographer: F. Bonfils
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Feluccas or quyasahs sailing on the Mahmudiyah canal.Photographer: F. Bonfils
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Palm trees in front of a pyramid, probably Giza. Photographer: F. Bonfils
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Feluccas moored on a bank of the Nile. Photographer: F. Bonfils
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Traders posing outside a shop with rugs, carpets and other artifacts, Cairo. Photographer: F. Bonfils, 1882
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Arab men posing in front of an ornately-carved wooden facade with camels in the foreground, Cairo. Photographer: F. Bonfils
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Arab woman wearing a veil and being helped onto a donkey outside a harim. Photographer: J.P. Sebah
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Half-length portrait of a Circassian woman wearing a veil and holding a water jug. Photographer: J.P. Sebah
SAD.628/27
Omar mosque, also known as the dome of the rock, Jerusalem. Photographer: F. Bonfils
SAD.628/28
Jews praying at the wailing wall, Jerusalem. Photographer: F. Bonfils
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Olive tree in the garden of Gethsemane. Photographer: F. Bonfils
SAD.628/30
View of Jerusalem. Photographer: F. Bonfils
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Half-length portrait of the ra`is of a dhahabiyah, possibly Cairo. Photographer: J.P. Sebah
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Half-length portrait of a Bedouin Arab, possibly Cairo. Photographer: J.P. Sebah
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Pools of Solomon. Photographer: F. Bonfils
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Shaduf, Egypt. Photographer: J.P. Sebah
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Cattle watering, possibly Cairo. Photographer: J.P. Sebah
SAD.628/37-38
Officers of the 17th Company, Royal Engineers at Abbassiyah, on the outskirts of Cairo, after the 1882 campaign
SAD.628/39
As above, featuring: A.G. Thomson and F.C. Caldwell-Heath
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As above, featuring: E. Wood, G. Graham, A.G. Thomson and F.C. Caldwell-Heath
SAD.628/41
Shennawi Bey's house in the centre of Suakin suq, 1884-1885
SAD.628/42
View of Suakin
SAD.628/43
Royal Engineers mess hut, possibly Suakin
SAD.628/44
Suakin houses
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Group of children and young people, possibly Hadendoa, standing next to a tent and hut
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Hadendoa men dressing each other's hair, Suakin
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Mahmud Bey Ali and his suite at Suakin
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Hadendoas, Suakin, 1884-1885
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Post Office, Suakin
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Harim at Suakin
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“The Waldorf Astoria of Arabia”, accommodating 1000 guests. Jiddah, 1885
SAD.628/54,56
Victoria lines, Malta
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Massawa
SAD.628/57
Sunken dredge in Suez canal which delayed Wood 13 days on his way home, 1885
SAD.628/58-60
Victoria lines, Malta - laid out by Wood, 1894-1899
SAD.628/61
Crossing Musta Gorge
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Victoria lines - manoeuvres of Sir A. Lyon Freemantle and staff 1898
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These lines, 8 miles from sea to sea along the Great Fault, were designed by and laid out under Wood's supervision, 1895-1899
SAD.628/64
Royal Engineers parade for Wood's inspection
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Royal Engineers on the Marsa under Charles Knight Wood (Wood's brother) for H.E.'s inspection
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At Malta, 1898
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Field works in main ditch
SAD.628/69
One of the tea tables in Wood's garden for Royal Engineers treat, Malta
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Firing squad
SAD.628/71-72
Views of Wood's drawing-room, Malta, 1894-1899
SAD.628/73
Wood's horse “Merriman” (sketch)
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Drawings
SAD.628/74
Immendingen - canoeing down the Danube (sketch)
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Drawings
SAD.628/75
On the Danube (sketch)
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Drawings
SAD.628/76
Sigmaringen (sketch)
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Drawings
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Canoeing round Malta and Gozo with C.K. Wood, 1898 (sketch)
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Drawings
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Wood's hut, Aldershot, 1887 (sketch)
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Drawings
SAD.628/79-80
Wood's hut, Aldershot
SAD.628/81-86
At Aldershot, 1903
SAD.628/87-88
Queen's birthday, Malta, 1898
SAD.628/89-173
Boer War, 1899-1902
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President S.J.P. Kruger and his wife, possibly Pretoria. Photograper: Barnett
SAD.628/90
President S.J.P. Kruger sitting on his stoep at Pretoria
SAD.628/91-93
Modder River - wrecked railway bridge, Dec 1899
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One hundred and twenty foot long bridge across a river
SAD.628/95
British troops under the command of General Buller crossing the River Tugela during the battle of Spion Kop. Photograper: Barnett
SAD.628/96
Trestle bridge in construction - Kaffir Spruit bridge, Standerton
SAD.628/97
Modder bridge showing temporary low-level deviation railway
SAD.628/98
Ammunition carts - watering mules at Frere
SAD.628/99
Signalling station constructed from rails and wire at Platrand camp
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Railway destroyed by Boers near Standerton
SAD.628/101
Hexagonal corrugated-iron blockhouse, Kaalfontein
SAD.628/102
Hexagonal blockhouse constructed from stone and corrugated iron and surrounded by barbed wire, possibly Pretoria. 8000 blockhouses in all were erected and 100,000 miles of barbed wire used
SAD.628/103-104
Wonderboom blockhouse, Pretoria
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Quagga Poort blockhouse, Pretoria
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Daspoort blockhouse, Pretoria
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Blockhouse between Irene and Johannesburg
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Headquarters blockhouse, Commando Nek
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Road blockhouse, Commando Nek
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Railway blockhouses
SAD.628/115
Blockhouse on overhead staging at gold mine
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Zillicab's Nek, Headquarters blockhouse
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Searchlight blockhouse
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Diamond drill boring for water
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Steel forts on ox wagons designed by Wood to escort convoys
SAD.628/120-121
East redoubt, Pretoria, 1901
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East Hill
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Cable Hill redoubt - exterior, Pretoria
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Cable Hill redoubt
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Lift for supplying Cable Hill redoubt with water and stores etc., 800 feet above plain. Stones in descending bucket hauled up supplies etc., the winch controlling movement
SAD.628/126-127
Advanced work for 6" gun, Quagga Redoubt, Pretoria. 8 miles out
SAD.628/128-133
Troops and blockhouses in the Brandwater district
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Building a blockhouse
SAD.628/135-139
Landscapes
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“Fixed” rifle battery trained to enfilade wire entanglements
SAD.628/141-142
Redoubts at Standerton
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Blockhouse
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Buildings, possibly a British military camp
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Blockhouse
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Landscape
SAD.628/147-148
Recreation room and officers' mess at Barberton, designed by Capt. Brooker, Royal Engineers
SAD.628/149-153
Pretoria and environs
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Military cemetery, Pretoria
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British and Boer military leaders at the first peace meeting held at Middelburg, Transvaal, 1902. Standing, from left to right: Colonel Henderson; Van Velden; Major J. K. Watson; H. Fraser; Major Maxwell; Major H. de Jager. Seated, from left to right: C. De Wet, Boer general; General L. Botha, Commandant-General; Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief; Colonel I. Hamilton, Chief-of-Staff
SAD.628/157
Reading the proclamation in the square, Pretoria
SAD.628/158
Group of British officers, 1900. Featuring: Birdwood, Harvey, Roberts, Kitchener, Marshall, E. Wood, Bethell, and Poett-Kelly. Photographer: Nissen
SAD.628/159
View of Barberton. Photographer: E.W. Byerley
SAD.628/160-161
German-designed fort at Klapperkop
SAD.628/162-163,167
German-designed permanent fort at Schantzkop
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German-designed permanent west fort, Pretoria
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German-designed permanent fort at Wonderboom, Pretoria
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Royal Engineers South African war mess plate (cups designed by Wood)
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H.M. King Edward VII planting an oak tree by the Royal Engineers South African war memorial
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H.M. King Edward VII and officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Chatham, 26 Jul 1905
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Royal Engineers South African war memorial, east and west faces
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Training battalion marching past
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Present and past five commandants of the S.M.E. [School of Military Engineering]
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Col. Rochfort Boyd, Royal Engineers
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Duke [of Connaught?] with Generals Wood and Reginald Gipps
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Bridge over Musta Gorge, erected by Sappers
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Rock cut Fougasse Marsa Scirocco, Malta
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Foreign troops
SAD.628/182
French Alpine troops
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Austrian Hussars
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Austrian Dragoons
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Brislau Grenadiers
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Russian troops
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Finnish troops
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Danish Marines
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King of Sweden inspecting
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Herzogovinian troops
SAD.628/199
Albanian troops
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Egyptian troops
SAD.628/201
The Khedive with Egyptian officers
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English troops - machine gun section
SAD.628/203
Duke of Connaught at Malta
SAD.628/205-208
Aerial views of S.W. Railway, Fleet, 1903, taken from a balloon
SAD.628/209
Firing squad
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Ulm Rathhaus and part of Cathedral, visited from Malta, 1896, during canoe trip down the Danube
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Merriman (horse) at Malta, 1899
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Pencil sketch of design by Wood for porch at Ledbury church (not erected)
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Storm on Loch Eil - Wood and C.K. Wood in zephyr canoes. (Photo of charcoal drawing)
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Wood and C.K. Wood in zephyr canoes on Loch Ness (Photo of charcoal drawing)
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Strasburg, 1906
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Assisi Cathedral