Footnotes

• Images include: group photograph with fellow officers, Bennett standing left (illustrated); 7th Mountain Battery ascending the Jelap Pass; great military wall across the valley at Yatung; view from hillside of the camp at New Chumbi; Tibetan women bringing in fodder; Wall at Gabong; frozen waterfall at Dotha; Phari (4); Chumolhari Range from Tuna (4-print panorama); camp at Phari from the fort; camp at Tuna; action at Tuna (7 including guns Bubble and Squeak ready to open fire); Ram Tso Lake (4-print panorama); "What the monastery at Naini looked like when the the R.E. had been there for an hour or two"; Gyantse (15 including graves of Lieut. Garstin and Capt. Bethune and lama prisoners returning from work"; Tsechen; Karo La; crossing the Brahmaputra at Chaksam; "The arrival of Yudok Shape & Ta Lama for a durbar at Nargartse"; Pele Jong; 7th Fusiliers entering the gate to Lhasa; Lhasa (20 including meeting of Younghusband and the Amban, street scenes, 2 views of the Tibetans assembed to sign the treaty, The Tongsa Penlop with a lama and Yugan Kazi "our agent with Bhutan"); Sera and Deburg monasteries.
  
  A small group of photocopies accompany the lot. These include a letter from Bennett while at Phari on the return to India enclosing photographs, addressed to John Bain, who had been one of Bennett's masters at Marlborough. A further letter of July 1916 from Bain to Bennett wishing him well in France is accompanied by a reply from Bennett's father with the news "...that today we received one of the dreaded W.O. Telegram telling us that dear Will was killed in action on the 15th. His loss is very great to us all, but we must console ourselves that he died doing his duty, & feeling assured that he was well prepared."
  
  W.P. Bennett's album of John Claude White's platinum prints was sold in these rooms in our Travel and Photography, India and Beyond sale, 5 October 2010, lot 224.

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