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WORLD WAR ONE, EGYPTIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE – BOND, Gunner, G.B. [Photograph album.] Gaza: 1918-1919.
Highly unusual images of tanks and artillery tractors on the Palestine Front, during the 1918 offensive against the Ottomans. While General Allenby was instinctively a cavalryman, and approved of the highly mobile Arab irregulars of the Sharifian forces commanded by Feisal and T.E. Lawrence, backed up by armoured cars and aircraft, these only supported his right flank as the main Egyptian Expeditionary Force used more traditional trench warfare techniques as it moved northward out of the Sinai and into Palestine. The photographs here show tanks and tracked vehicles moving artillery pieces into position. The Ottomans were evidently well-armed, judging by a an image of a disabled tank with a large shell hole in its side. Other unusual shots include a Red Cross train steaming through Gaza, camels ploughing fields and a military camel train returning from Gaza.
48 original photographs (55 x 80mm), captioned in pencil, one showing Gunner Bond posing with an Arab, mounted on 12 leaves, octavo (185 x 130mm). Original green cloth (extremities lightly rubbed). Sold with two Great War 1914-1918 medals with ribbons, engraved '115145 Gnr G.B. Bond RA'.
Highly unusual images of tanks and artillery tractors on the Palestine Front, during the 1918 offensive against the Ottomans. While General Allenby was instinctively a cavalryman, and approved of the highly mobile Arab irregulars of the Sharifian forces commanded by Feisal and T.E. Lawrence, backed up by armoured cars and aircraft, these only supported his right flank as the main Egyptian Expeditionary Force used more traditional trench warfare techniques as it moved northward out of the Sinai and into Palestine. The photographs here show tanks and tracked vehicles moving artillery pieces into position. The Ottomans were evidently well-armed, judging by a an image of a disabled tank with a large shell hole in its side. Other unusual shots include a Red Cross train steaming through Gaza, camels ploughing fields and a military camel train returning from Gaza.
48 original photographs (55 x 80mm), captioned in pencil, one showing Gunner Bond posing with an Arab, mounted on 12 leaves, octavo (185 x 130mm). Original green cloth (extremities lightly rubbed). Sold with two Great War 1914-1918 medals with ribbons, engraved '115145 Gnr G.B. Bond RA'.
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