LEATHER BOUND ALBUM OF 26 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS. (11 x 6.7 inches). The photos measure approximately 7 x 5 inches and are pasted onto stiff card pages, many with a neat hand written description below the photo or to the reverse of the page. The album is bound in attractive early full brown morocco leather with raised bands and gilt lettering to the sine. The front board has a tan inlay design to the top left hand side. Staining to the rear board. All edges gilt. Subjects photographed include; soldiers with gas masks, firing line trenches, the Cook House, Mill on the Somme, Whiz-Bang Corner, Verbranden Molen, dugout, woods showing the effect of shell fire, and relaxing, bathing pool in the firing line, one of the Norfolk Cemeteries. The photographer was Robert Millington Knowles of the Special Reserve Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment. He joined up in 1912 as an officer and from 1914 spent 2 years on active service in the trenches. He later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, where he was shot down in flames and severely wounded. He was awarded the Military Cross. Before the war he was an enthusiastic pioneer of motor racing and also rode as an amateur in TT races. He also raced his Rolls-Royce at Brooklands in 1912.