£70 - £100
A WW1 1916-18 photo album of Mesopotamia (Baghdad and Basra), 596 Mechanical Transport Coy A.S.C., part-filled with photographs and copies of photos, loose and pasted, including military life, street scenes, ports, landscapes, everyday life, ancient artefacts, local people, along with pencil sketch cartoons, greetings cards, postcards and race cards (Basrah Spring Races, Saturday 6th April 1918; Baghdad Sporting Club Races, Thursday 14th March 1918 and Thursday 12th December 1918), 'The Land of the Two Rivers' (Army YMCA of India); together with WW1 post-Armistice journal diary loose sheets, 16/11/1918 to 27/12/1918 (Royal Engineers, 62nd Div), Belgium and Germany, in pencil and pen; 62nd Division, Order of Service for Field Marshall Rt. Hon. Earl Kitchener of Khartoum's Memorial Service; Ordnance Survey map of Germany, Nov. 1918; a quantity of loose black and white photographs of India, 1940s army WW2 posting (including Poona, Lucknow, Hussainabad, hospitals, street scenes, architecture, etc., some inscribed verso); and WW2 RAF portraits, group shots, sports team photographs. (Qty)
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