Hong Kong. Photograph album depicting a tour by Lieutenant William Gray Rawlinson (1890-1915), 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1913-14. Oblong folio album, contemporary half skiver (spine defective), 134 photographs (apparently gelatin silver prints), mainly snapshots (90 x 75 mm and similar), but several larger (up to 220 x 288 mm), mounted rectos and versos to linen-hinged stiff card leaves, depicting various street scenes and views, including pagodas, temples, a racecourse, junks, Rawlinson with his horse, and many views depicting or taken from a yawl ('Irene') off Stonecutters Island and elsewhere, the album also depicting a journey home via North America including Niagara Falls (the section including several images of steam locomotives), a visit to South Africa ('J'oburg Gold Mines', etc.), and a few domestic scenes (around Penny Bridge, Ulverston), manuscript captions (some apparently by Rawlinson himself, later captions evidently by a relative), 2 Hong Kong-printed sale notices for horses belonging to Rawlinson ('The following polo ponies must be disposed of immediately owing to the D.C.L.I. being ordered to India') mounted to front free endpaper, Rawlinson's memorial card incorporating portrait photograph mounted to front pastedown ('killed in action March 14th, at the battle of St. Eloi, Belgium') (qty: 1)