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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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Nicosia, Cyprus. October 1943. S/Sgt. Hurst
1943 - 10

Nicosia, Cyprus. October 1943. "Outside No.11 A.B.P.O."
1943 - 10

The Pyramids November 1943 (Cairo conference Churchill & Roosevelt) “By the Sphinx”
1943 - 11

Alexandria November 1943.
1943 - 11

Alexandria November 1943. “On the sea wall”
1943 - 11

Alexandria November 1943.
1943 - 11

Alexandria November 1943. “Cleopatre's Temple”
1943 - 11

Alexandria November 1943. Mohamed Aly [sic] Square
1943 - 11

Alexandria November 1943. Stanley Bay.
1943 - 11

Alexandria November 1943. “The happy leave smile”
1943 - 11

Alexandria November 1943 L to R. L/Cpl. Hickey. Pte Kleinberg. L/Cpl. Buston.
1943 - 11

Alexandria November 1943 L to R. L/Cpl. Buston. L/Cpl. Hickey, Pte Kleinberg.
1943 - 11

Nicosia. Cyprus. Oct. 43. St. Paul's Church.
1943 - 10

Nicosia. Cyprus. Oct. 43. Interior of St. Paul's Church.
1943 - 10

Nicosia. Cyprus. Oct. 43. Outside the Sgts. Mess with S/Sgt. Rogan & Peggy
1943 - 10

Nicosia. Cyprus. Oct. 43.. S.S.M. C. McLaughlan. R.A.P.C.
1943 - 10

Cairo. November 1943. A Royal Procession. King Farouk's Carriage
1943 - 11

Cairo. November 1943. A Royal Procession. Russian Statesmen's Carriage
1943 - 11

Cairo. November 1943. A Royal Procession. Leading Horsemen
1943 - 11

Alexandria Nov. 1943. Nouza Gardens. Reg. Buston & I.
1943 - 11

Alexandria Nov. 1943. Nouza Gardens.
1943 - 11

Alexandria Nov. 1943. With Roley Beaumont an old Jerusalem roomate.
1943 - 11

Cairo January 1944. Some snaps taken towards the close of day. Fouad-El-Awal
1944 - 01

Cairo January 1944. Some snaps taken towards the close of day. The Midan outside the R.A.P.C. Sgt's Mess
1944 - 01

CPI. G. Smith Collection (album II)