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PALESTINE — POLICE MOBILE FORCE — Photograph album. [c.1944].
Very rare images of the short-lived Police Mobile force (PMF) division of the Palestine Police Force (PPF). In 1944, with the retreat of German forces in Europe due to Stalin's march from the East, and the Allied invasion in Normandy, Irgun and Lehi started to increase their anti-British terrorist activities. Faced with this rising threat, the PPF created the PMF, a lightly armoured mobile detachment of the PPF, conceived as an elite, rapid-reaction, counter-terrorist force that would allow the PPF to reduce their reliance on military units. In reality, it only recruited around half of the number of personnel that was originally envisaged, and those that did join were pitifully trained. The photographs here show PMF Otter armoured vehicles, as well as the effects of terrorist bombs on a Taggart (sic) fort at Shafa Amr (Shefa-?Amr).
159 original photographs (most 65 x 92mm, a few smaller) mounted on 18 leaves, oblong octavo (175 x 255mm). Original decorative cloth (extremities lightly rubbed). Sold with another small album of 15 original photographs (55 x 80mm) mounted on 14 leaves (one image loosely inserted), depicting various Palestinian scenes from a slightly earlier period, probably during the Arab Rebellion, with images of Arab prison camps and prisoners, as well as practising with 'A new weapon of war, a Bren gun;' oblong 12mo (74 x 102mm), original cloth.
Very rare images of the short-lived Police Mobile force (PMF) division of the Palestine Police Force (PPF). In 1944, with the retreat of German forces in Europe due to Stalin's march from the East, and the Allied invasion in Normandy, Irgun and Lehi started to increase their anti-British terrorist activities. Faced with this rising threat, the PPF created the PMF, a lightly armoured mobile detachment of the PPF, conceived as an elite, rapid-reaction, counter-terrorist force that would allow the PPF to reduce their reliance on military units. In reality, it only recruited around half of the number of personnel that was originally envisaged, and those that did join were pitifully trained. The photographs here show PMF Otter armoured vehicles, as well as the effects of terrorist bombs on a Taggart (sic) fort at Shafa Amr (Shefa-?Amr).
159 original photographs (most 65 x 92mm, a few smaller) mounted on 18 leaves, oblong octavo (175 x 255mm). Original decorative cloth (extremities lightly rubbed). Sold with another small album of 15 original photographs (55 x 80mm) mounted on 14 leaves (one image loosely inserted), depicting various Palestinian scenes from a slightly earlier period, probably during the Arab Rebellion, with images of Arab prison camps and prisoners, as well as practising with 'A new weapon of war, a Bren gun;' oblong 12mo (74 x 102mm), original cloth.
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Robert Tyrwhitt