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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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Cairo January 1944. Some snaps taken towards the close of day. Opera Square
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Cairo January 1944. Some snaps taken towards the close of day. P/O. Bob Sivyer. R.A.F. "One for the Road"
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Cairo January 1944. Some snaps taken towards the close of day. Harry Houghton & I at Gezira, Cairo.
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Cairo January 1944. A day at The Pyramids. A Mosque & Minaret in Mena village with the main pyramid in the background.
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Cairo January 1944. A day at The Pyramids. "The Sheikh refused to look towards the camera".
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Cairo January 1944. A day at The Pyramids. S.S.M. McLaughlan, Fritz Jochem U.S.N. and of course The Sphinx
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Cairo January 1944. A day at The Pyramids. Mac relaxing on a trek through Mena village.
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Cairo. Gezira Sporting Club. January 1944. “Taking it easy” Roley Beaumont.
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Cairo. Gezira Sporting Club January 1944. “Taking it easy” Palm trees and ?
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Cairo. Gezira Sporting Club January 1944. “Taking it easy” Harry Houghton
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Cairo. Gezira Sporting Club January 1944. “Taking it easy” Cairo Cathedral
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Cairo. Gezira Sporting Club January 1944. “Taking it easy” With a Dragonman & Alan Perry near Shepheards Hotel Cairo
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“Sakkarah” 25 kilometres from Cairo. Jan. 1944. The Pillars at the entrance to the Courtyard built approx 5,000 B.C.
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“Sakkarah” 25 kilometres from Cairo. Jan. 1944. General view of excavations of Tombs.
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“Sakkarah” 25 kilometres from Cairo. Jan. 1944. The remains of pillars in the main courtyard.
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“Sakkarah” 25 kilometres from Cairo. Jan. 1944. An excavated wall
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“Sakkarah” 25 kilometres from Cairo. Jan. 1944. A stone coffin in the foreground with excavations etc. and the Step Pyramid of Sakkarah in the rear.
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“Sakkarah” 25 kilometres from Cairo. Jan. 1944. The party going down into one of the tombs
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Sakkarah. Jan. 44. More snaps but of a lighter nature. Lieut Gooding in a stone coffin, “well guarded”
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Sakkarah. Jan. 44. More snaps but of a lighter nature. We found a wooden statue, Fritz wanted to sleep with it.
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Sakkarah. Jan. 44. More snaps but of a lighter nature. A badly taken group "no questions please"
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Sakkarah. Jan. 44. More snaps but of a lighter nature. We raid a graveyard "Lovely skulls one even had a rattle inside it"
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Sakkarah. Jan. 44. More snaps but of a lighter nature. Fritz Jochem U.S.N. guarded by Mr. Davies
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Sakkarah Jan. 1944. Inscriptions on the walls of tombs & false doors. Each emblem represents a letter. i.e. a bird "T"
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CPI. G. Smith Collection (album II)