HALL, E. (Fl.1944-1945). [Photograph album, Palestine, 1944-1945.]

Rare photographs of Palestine assembled by an RAF serviceman.

144 photographs (most approx. 70 x 90 mm.), most with manuscript annotations, mounted on 20 leaves, oblong 8vo (168 x 258 mm.) Original cloth-backed olivewood, string tie (extremities rubbed).
Provenance:
‘LGC E. Hall / RAF AQIR 1944/45’ (inscription on front pastedown).

Covering Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Tiberias, Bethlehem, Haifa and elsewhere, this album represents a rare account of the experiences of an RAF serviceman in Palestine during WW2. Some of the photographs depict members of the RAF on their travels around Palestine, with a number of shots of popular tourist sites. Others, however, show life at Aqir, the RAF’s main base in the country, including a view of the swimming pool, the interior and exterior of the church, and the Italian POW billet.