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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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Y.M.C.A. Cairo Mar. & April 1942. Ralph Russell
1942

Y.M.C.A. Cairo Mar. & April 1942. Uncle Ted. Genefia [sic] Mar. 42.
1942

Y.M.C.A. Cairo Mar. & April 1942. Uncle Ted and I.
1942

Cairo March & April 1942. “At the Sphinx”.
1942

Cairo March & April 1942. On the way to the Pyramids
1942

Cairo March & April 1942. “Ernie Waters” P/O. R.A.F.
1942

Cairo March & April 1942. 2/Lieut. Ralph Russell
1942

Cairo March & April 1942. 2/Lieut. Ralph Russell
1942

Jerusalem April 1942 St. Georges Cathedral
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 St. Georges
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 St. Julian's Way
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 The Chapel in The Syrian Orphanage
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 The Chapel in The Syrian Orphanage
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 The Mosque of Omar over the roof tops
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 S.S.M Dore.
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 At Talbot House
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 Harry Houghton
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 Sam Goddard
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 Sgt. Blowers, Paul and I.
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 Lieut. Merton
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 A. Smith
1942 - 04

Jerusalem April 1942 Mrs. Smith
1942 - 04

Tel Aviv April 1942. Cpl. Bartenshaw, Mrs. Smith & Pte. Beaumont
1942 - 04

Tel Aviv April 1942 Mrs. Smith and I.
1942 - 04

CPI. G. Smith Collection (album II)