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THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN MANDATORY PALESTINE
Photograph album, Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, October 1937-December 1938, containing 88 photographs of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the British camp at Sarafand, Cairo, Beirut and elsewhere, and two images of R.A.F. Christmas menus from 1937-8, most with hand-written descriptions, on 14 leaves, oblong 4to (265 x 210mm), (one photograph missing). Cloth-covered boards (slip-tie worn, lacking one tie at the spine). Provenance: apparently compiled by a member of the Royal Air Force stationed at Sarafand.
The photographs compiled by this airman create a sense of the uneasy existence that a British serviceman based in Mandatory Palestine might experience: calmly-posed photographs of historic sites, both close by and further afield, such as the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, the Sphinx, and squadron hockey in Cairo are interspersed with those showing the funeral of a Jewish policeman killed during the 1938 revolts and a French destroyer in Beirut Harbour. As well as documenting the compiler's travels in the region, the album contains a number of illustrations of camp life at Sarafand.
Photograph album, Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, October 1937-December 1938, containing 88 photographs of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the British camp at Sarafand, Cairo, Beirut and elsewhere, and two images of R.A.F. Christmas menus from 1937-8, most with hand-written descriptions, on 14 leaves, oblong 4to (265 x 210mm), (one photograph missing). Cloth-covered boards (slip-tie worn, lacking one tie at the spine). Provenance: apparently compiled by a member of the Royal Air Force stationed at Sarafand.
The photographs compiled by this airman create a sense of the uneasy existence that a British serviceman based in Mandatory Palestine might experience: calmly-posed photographs of historic sites, both close by and further afield, such as the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, the Sphinx, and squadron hockey in Cairo are interspersed with those showing the funeral of a Jewish policeman killed during the 1938 revolts and a French destroyer in Beirut Harbour. As well as documenting the compiler's travels in the region, the album contains a number of illustrations of camp life at Sarafand.