Lot 103
Photo Album - British Officer in Palestine, Early 1940s
Photo album belonging to a British officer who served in Palestine and surroundings, ca. 1942-1943.
The album contains some 150 photographs, dated and titled in handwriting (English), recording the service of a British officer in Palestine and the Middle East during World War II. The album contains photographs of Jerusalem and its sites (Western Wall, Russian Church in Ein Karem, Church of All Nations, Ben Yehudah Street, King David Hotel, and more); Tel-Aviv (Dizengoff Square, Mugrabi Cinema, Rothschild Boulevard and more); Haifa (the Technion, Herzl Street, Casino Bat Galim and more); as well as photographs of Rachel's Tomb, Church of Nativity, Sea of Galilee, Acre, Nahariya, Qantara, Cairo, Libya, soldiers training in a military camp and many other sites.
On inner side of front binding appears a visiting card of "Captain W.A. Matthews, The Essex Regiment" and by it four military tags and a ribbon (names of military units are written by hand near them). Binding with a relief in the shape of the walls of Jerusalem.
About 150 photographs. Photographs: approx. 5.5X9 - 4.5X6.5 cm. Album: apaprox. 21.5X29.5 cm. Good condition. Slight stains and defects to some photographs. Album in good condition, slight defects to leaves and to binding.
