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Front view of Short Calcutta floating in river. Submitted with caption 'Imperial Airways Short Calcutta G-AATZ at Khartoum. Don Bennett flew the Calcutta on Empire routes from Imperial Airways flying boat base at Alexandria'. On the reverse 'Calcutta…

Side view of a bi-plane seaplane picketed on a river bank. Registration 'G-AATZ'. A man sits on the forward picket line. Submitted with caption 'Imperial Airways Short Calcutta G-AATZ at Khartoum. Don Bennett flew the Calcutta on Empire routes from…

Nine photographs from an album.
#1 a row of Vampires
#2is of the River Nile at Kafr Halawa.
#3 is the church at RAF Shallufa.
#4 is an oblique aerial view of the Thames, London with the Isle of Dogs at the bottom.
#5 is the entrance to RAF…

Top left - view from the air of a desert town. Captioned 'Khartoum from the air'.
Top right - view from cockpit landing on desert runway. Captioned 'Landing on 32 runway, Wadi Halfa'.
Centre - view from the air of cliff river bank with river at…

Top left - sailing vessels on river with trees on bank behind. Captioned 'Felucca at Geziran, Cairo'.
Top middle - view of river with falls. Captioned 'Source of the Nile at Ripon Falls, Jinja, on Lake Victoria, Uganda'.
Top right - sailing vessel…

Top left - group of five airmen, three wearing khaki uniform sitting in chairs in front of a building. Captioned 'Outside mess, Jan 1941, Heliopolis, Cairo'.
Top right - flying boat airborne above a river with trees on left bank. Captioned 'BOAC…

A flooded Nile with two camels, several people, palm trees and in the background two pyramids. On the reverse 'No. 33 Cairo The Pyramids of Gizeh during the inundation of the Nile.'

Two Egyptians on the bank of the Nile. A felucca sailing on the river and the pyramids in the distance. On the reverse 'No. 25 Cairo A distant view of the Pyramids of Gizeh, gorgeous tombs of the mighty rulers of ancient Egypt.'

Three Egyptians with camels at the side of the river with the pyramid of King Cheops and palm trees in the background. On the reverse 'No. 31 Cairo The Pyramid of King Cheops seen from the valley of the Nile'.

Two Egyptians praying in front of two distant pyramids. A camel waits with them by the side of the river.
On the reverse 'No. 34 Cairo Moslems Morning Prayer near Pyramids'.

Aswan low dam with sluices open and Nile water flowing out.

Identification kindly provided by Gianluca Mazzanti of the Archeologi dell’Aria research group.

Photo 1 is the courtyard if the Mosque Mohammed Ali.
Photo 2 is the exterior of the Mohammed Ali mosque.
Photo 3 is the Sultan Hassan and Rifa mosque.
Photo 4 is the interior of the Mohammed Ali mosque.
Photo 5 is the Citadel.
Photo 6 is the…

Five photographs from an album.
Photo 1 and 4 are bridges over the Nile.
Photo 2 is a view across the river.
Photo 3 and 5 are head and shoulders of Sam.

A road bridge across the Nile. Large numbers of pedestrians are waiting on the pavement. Police on horses are doing crowd control.

Top left - view across a quiet street to the Cairo Citadel. There are a few pedestrians and palm trees in the foreground. Captioned ‘The Citadel’. Top right - in the centre is a roundabout with guards at the side of the road and pedestrians on…