Lt. Archibald Clive Irvine, SS Durham Castle, Cape Town, South Africa, June 1917

“Lt. Irvine.- C.A.” Portrait of Lt. Irvine on board the SS Durham Castle which was transporting troops to South Africa. Dr Irvine joined the Royal Army Medical Corps after graduating from a medical degree at the University of Aberdeen and was sent to German East Africa. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in East Africa. During this time he would meet Dr John W Arthur which in turn would lead to his missionary work at Chogoria in Kenya