Photographs

This album contains 198 black and white photographs and 9 postage stamps, compiled in an album, taken by Sergeant Geoffrey Smith while stationed abroad in the final years of World War II. The album covers a period of time beginning in August 1941 and ending in April 1945. The locations of the photographs include Israel (Palestine): Jerusalem, Tel Aviv; Egypt: Cairo, Alexandria, Sakkara; Cyprus: Nicosia, Kyrenia, Troodos; Lebanon (Syria): Beirut, and Great Britain: London, Bishopthorpe. Themes within this album include people and locations associated with military service, monuments and ancient sites, holidays and leisure time, and finally the return home of Geoffrey Smith to his family in London. The titles were taken from inscriptions on the album pages, where available, and were otherwise generated by the cataloguer on the basis of the content of the photograph.

The Costas and Rita Severis Foundation holds or manages the copyright(s) of this collection and its digital reproduction.

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Above groups taken at my birthday party in Jerusalem 23.8.41
1941--08--23

Above groups taken at my birthday party in Jerusalem 23.8.41
1941--08--23

Above groups taken at my birthday party in Jerusalem 23.8.41
1941--08--23

A study of Arab women, in the old city, note how they carry their wares in baskets, placed on the head.
ca. 1941

David's Tower and the Jaffa Gate, this gate is one of the many which divide the old and new cities of Jerusalem.
ca. 1941

Jerusalem Jan. 1942. R.P M.E.F Offices
1942 - 01

JERUSALEM JAN. 1942. SECTION P.7
1942 - 01

Jerusalem Jan. 1942. A view of The Mount of Olives
1942 - 01

Jerusalem Jan. 1942. American School of Oriental Research
1942 - 01

Jerusalem Jan. 1942. Lieut. Cross R.A.P.C.
1942 - 01

Jerusalem Jan. 1942. Section P. 7
1942 - 01

The Snow Fight at the Syrian Orphanage. R.P. M.E.F. Jerusalem Jan. 1942. "Lying in wait for Command Office"
1942 - 01

The Snow Fight at the Syrian Orphanage. R.P. M.E.F. Jerusalem Jan. 1942. "The Advance Party"
1942 - 01

The Snow Fight at the Syrian Orphanage. R.P. M.E.F. Jerusalem Jan. 1942. “The Advance Party thwarted”
1942 - 01

The Snow Fight at the Syrian Orphanage. R.P. M.E.F. Jerusalem Jan. 1942. The main charge
1942 - 01

The snow fight at the Syrian Orphanage, R.P. M.E.F, Jerusalem Jan. 1942, The main charge
1942 - 01

The snow fight at the Syrian Orphanage, R.P. M.E.F, Jerusalem Jan. 1942, The main charge
1942 - 01

Jerusalem Jan. 1942. Huts of R.P. M.E.F.
1942 - 01

Jerusalem Jan. 1942. The Blind School
1942 - 01

Jerusalem Jan. 1942. Schneller Road.
1942 - 01

Jerusalem Jan. 1942. Ron. Hudson
ca. 1942

Jerusalem Jan. 1942. Stumpy Foster.
ca. 1942

Y.M.C.A. Cairo Mar. & April 1942. Fred Nias & I.
1942 - 03

Y.M.C.A. Cairo Mar. & April 1942. Fred Nias
1942

CPI. G. Smith Collection (album II)