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6 SQUADRON, ROYAL AIR FORCE, IRAQ 1925 — TOMBLIN, Leading Aircraftsman, S.R. [Photograph album. Iraq and Egypt: 1925.]
103 fine images of the RAF in and around Mosul in the 1920s. The photographs show numerous different aircraft, including Night Hawks, Snipes, Vickers Vernons, DH 9a (crashed, with note it was flown by Capt. Sargon), and a Bristol fighter in flight (with caption that the pilot was F/O Purdin). 6 Squadron was sent to Iraq in 1919, where it was involved in implementing the British policy of 'Air Control.' A truly Middle Eastern unit, 6 Squadron remained in Iraq for 10 years, before transferring to Egypt in 1929, and then later was sent to Palestine in 1938, before entering the Italian theatre in 1944. The images here also show very many ancient monuments of Mosul and Ninevah, with a few of Baghdad. There are also a few Egyptian scenes.
180 original photographs (one, a portrait of the photographer, 43 x 40mm on front pastedown, all the others 55 x 100mm), mounted on 15 leaves, oblong quarto (205 x 296mm), neatly captioned in ink manuscript, accompanied by 20 other loose photographs of a similar nature. Contemporary cloth (extremities lightly rubbed and soiled).
103 fine images of the RAF in and around Mosul in the 1920s. The photographs show numerous different aircraft, including Night Hawks, Snipes, Vickers Vernons, DH 9a (crashed, with note it was flown by Capt. Sargon), and a Bristol fighter in flight (with caption that the pilot was F/O Purdin). 6 Squadron was sent to Iraq in 1919, where it was involved in implementing the British policy of 'Air Control.' A truly Middle Eastern unit, 6 Squadron remained in Iraq for 10 years, before transferring to Egypt in 1929, and then later was sent to Palestine in 1938, before entering the Italian theatre in 1944. The images here also show very many ancient monuments of Mosul and Ninevah, with a few of Baghdad. There are also a few Egyptian scenes.
180 original photographs (one, a portrait of the photographer, 43 x 40mm on front pastedown, all the others 55 x 100mm), mounted on 15 leaves, oblong quarto (205 x 296mm), neatly captioned in ink manuscript, accompanied by 20 other loose photographs of a similar nature. Contemporary cloth (extremities lightly rubbed and soiled).
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