WORLD WAR II - MIDDLE EAST.

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Photograph album kept by Douglas Warner, C Flight 972 Squadron. A visual record of the Second World War in the Middle East, with superb snapshots of Indian Army personnel, members of the camel corps in Egypt and Sudan, and the Sudanese household cavalry. Also included is a range of scenic views and images of everyday life.Warner's squadron served in the Middle East 1941-2 and was posted to North Africa in 1943. His most important photographs concern his service and those with whom he served. Alongside photographing military personnel, he records their training and excursions and, in one image, a group of RAF men, Warner perhaps among them, pose on top of a car belonging to the Palestine Police Force. Eight photographs show the funeral of a British sergeant, while one commercial image pictures Winston Churchill visiting soldiers at Tel El Kebir on 9 August 1942.Scenic and tourist views of Palestine show Warner's seaside billet in Haifa, a coffee house and street in Acre, and Mt Carmel, as well as the Sea of Galilee, Lake Tiberias, and the atmospheric River Nile. The squadron's transfer to Africa is made via troop train. Aerial photographs of Khartoum are positioned alongside snaps of a sandstorm, and by the White Nile Bridge he snaps an RAF hydroplane. In North Africa, he mingles with soldiers of the Sudan Defence Force and members of the Khartoum police band. The album closes with a trip along the road to the Congo and time spent on duty at Juba.

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