Captain W.H. Dent with foxhound puppies, 1st Chinese Regiment, Weihaiwei

Captain W.H. Dent with foxhound puppies, 1st Chinese Regiment, Weihaiwei

Collection

Ruxton Family

Identifier

Ru01-050

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ru01-050. A pack of harriers was kept by the First (British) Chinese Regiment - and local hares were regularly hunted. Captain, later Major, Wilfred Harry Dent, joined the 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment soon after war was declared. He was killed in 1915, at the Battle of Loos. Source: 'Getting Stuck in for Shanghai' by Robert Bickers (Penguin, 2014). See Ru-s087.

Caption in album or on mount

Capt Dent Half-bred Fox-hound Pups.

Location

Weihai

Estimated Date

1902

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London