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Fotoğraflar

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.

Kyrenia, Cyprus. March 1943 "Armed for action" ?
1943 - 03

Kyrenia, Cyprus. March 1943 Some of the chaps of No.3 w/shops Plat. R.A.S.C.
1943 - 03

Up in the mountains of Cyprus August 1943 Troodos Church
1943 - 08

Up in the mountains of Cyprus August 1943 Platres village from Mount Troodos
1943 - 08

Up in the mountains of Cyprus August 1943 The Amiandos [sic] Mine
1943 - 08

Up in the mountains of Cyprus August 1943 A typical forest scene.
1943 - 08

Up in the mountains of Cyprus August 1943 Magnificent trees in the woods around the villages of Troodos & Platres approx 5,000 ft. above sea level.
1943 - 08