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KWH - Whitney Collection of Photographs
- WP - Whitney personal collection.
  - 1 - Photographs taken by Ernest Whitney during his sevice in the First World War. He was conscripted into the army in March 1916, and had to close his photographic business in Huntingdon. He served initially in the Cambridgeshire Regiment, and was later transferred to the Sixth Gloucesters. He saw service in France and fought in the third battle of Ypres.The Hunts Post reported in October 1917 that he had been wounded, but had recovered from his wounds. The Hunts Post of the 1 March 1918 reported that Mr Whitney had recently been attached to the photographic section of the RFC in Italy. All these photographs in WP1, except one (WP1/2), appear to have been taken in Italy and were presumably taken in 1918. They include military photographs as well as images of days spent on leave in Venice and with the villagers in the surrounding countryside, and also one of the Prince of Wales, who served on the Italian Front for short periods in 1917 and 1918. Only WP1/2 is of the battlefield between the Yser and Paschendaele Canals on the Western Front

RefNo	KWH/WP/1/1
AltRefNo	WP1/1
Title	Head and shoulders portrait of the Prince of Wales in army uniform.
Description	The Prince served on the Italian Front from 1917 (when British and French reinforcements were sent to Italy to aid the Italian army) to early 1918. He returned again from April-August of that year, and then for part of September 1918. In this image the Prince is wearing a sun helmet. His letters home to Mrs Freda Dudley Ward [see "Letters from a Prince" ed. by Rupert Godfrey], contain the following,"The only thing of interest I have done today is to buy a sun helmet from the Ordnance stores; I actually found one to fit me & I long to wear it, though I suppose the sun isn't quite hot enough yet!!" [letter 15th May 1918 from G.H.Q. British Forces, Italy].
Date	1918
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CreatorName	The Whitney Collection
Repository	Huntingdonshire Archives

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