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  • Spatial Coverage is exactly "Egypt--cairo"

PCulkinJ17010328.jpg
Photograph of city square, statue of man on horseback in centre, reverse captioned '6 16/9/44 Darling, Cairo! city of Mystery? in more ways than one! Love Jack XXX'.

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Top left - side view of a York parked on hardstanding, captioned 'Avro York (Almaza Airport, Cairo)'.
Bottom right - view of Ibrahim Al Lakani, El-Montaza, Heliopolis. Multi-story building with minaret tower across square with palm trees. Captioned…

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Top left - view of airport terminal building in the distance. Bottom of the nose of an Avro York top right. Captioned 'Terminal building, Almaza airport, Cairo'.
Top right - five RAF officers, all wearing tunics and four with peaked caps standing…

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Top left - a man standing in doorway with blanket fraped round him. Captioned 'Freddy at Cairo west'.
Top right - three men floating in a swimming pool with other bathers in pool and poolside on other side of the pool. Captioned 'Heliopolis pool,…

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A navigation chart of Cairo including the delta and the Red Sea.

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Top left - view across city with mosques and minarets. Captioned 'The Mosque Mohamed Ali, Cairo'.
Top right - mosque with two minarets bottom left with city wall beyond and large mosque with two minarets in the distance. Captioned 'The citadel…

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Album cover for a collection of photographs of Cairo

PCoultonWA16010024.jpg
Top left - three pyramids with the largest on the right. Captioned 'Pyramids of Giza'. Top right - in the centre the Sphinx with two pyramids behind. Captioned 'The Sphinx of Giza with the pyramids of Cheops & Kephern [sic]'. Centre - street scene…

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A newspaper cutting about civil unrest after the Balfour Declaration.

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A group of men standing and seated at the side of the road.

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Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is Wag and Len walking along a street.
Photo 2 is a car on a street.
Photo 3 is an open air cafe.
Photo 4 is a group mainly squatting on the pavement, captioned 'Boot Blacks (Shoe shine Captain George?)'.

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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…

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A view of the camp at Cairo. In the distance a pyramid has been marked with a cross. On the reverse '1/2/46 Our camp at Merv, at Cairo (Egypt) with PYRAMIDS in the background. Marked with X.'

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LGodfreyCR1281391v10001.pdf
Observer's and air gunner's flying log book for Pilot Officer Godfrey from 3 of February 1941 to 25 of September 1945 detailing training schedule, instructional duties and operations flown. Aircraft flown were Dominie, Proctor, Wellington, Hampden,…

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Article 1 headlines: Churchill-Roosevelt-talks, closest unity, General Smuts joins premier and president in news Cairo conference. Article 2 headlines; Scharnhorst sunk in arctic battle, attack by home fleet guarding Russian convoy, long fight off…

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LDaymanC1818522v1.pdf
Flying log book for navigator’s, air bomber’s, air gunners, flight engineers for C Dayman, wireless operator, covering the period from 11 February 1944 to 16 May 1947. Detailing his flying training, post war flying with 216 Squadron and Aden…

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A bill for the use of an apartment at the hotel. The bill is owed by three airmen - R Smerdon, J Hitchcock and D Mitchell.

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Transcript of discussion with Lucian Ercolani, Norman Didwell and Joan Didwell. Firstly comments on training in England and then Canada. Recalls a little of first tour on Wellington with 214 Squadron. Mentions having to ditch after operation to…

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SBondS-DidwellNv10002.pdf
Transcript of discussions and includes information from a letter dated 21 April 1986. Norman Didwell was flight rigger on 99 Squadron at Mildenhall and Newmarket and then at Middle East staging posts, Transport Command RAF Waterbeach and Gatow…

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PShawSR16010037.jpg
The winner of the cycle race receiving a trophy. On the reverse 'Ray Herd receiving prize. Tura'.

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LCrampinDE2206941v1.pdf
D E Crampin’s Wireless Operator’s Flying Log Book covering the period 15 October 1943 to 24 March 1953. Detailing his flying training and operations flown as Wireless Operator. He was stationed at RAF Yatesbury (2 Radio School), RAF Evanton (8…

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List of deficiencies on arrival from the UK. No rank and name filled out.

BMooreDMooreDv1.pdf
Dennis Moore's autobiography, compiled and edited by his son, Terry Moore.

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YIvesonD19171121v1.pdf
Douglas 'Hank' Ivseson's first tour in Europe and 16 days of operational duties in the Middle East covering the period 7 July 1941 to 26 February 1943. Hank served with 76 Squadron, 77 Squadron and 462 Squadron and flew in Whitley and Halifax…

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PDoxseyJA18010069.jpg
Left - rear quarter view of a Dove parked on airfield with men by cabin door. Airfield buildings in the distance. Captioned 'Dove at Almaza, Cairo'.
Right - view of front of Dove with man standing behind port wing. Airport buildings in the distance.…
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