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A telegram form L Shipman to John. Letter received, thank you. All well at home. God bless you and keep you safe.

Covers of John's photo album.

Four photographs from an album. Another two are missing.
Photo 1 is a group of men on the back of a cart.
Photo 2 is a group of 13 actors dressed for a pantomime.
Photo 3 is airmen dressed in Arab dress, drinking beer.
Photo 4 is a group on a…

Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a view of gardens and palm trees.
Photo 2 is an airman in pith helmet, khaki and shorts leaning on a bench in the park.
Photo 3 is an airman wearing a pith helmet, khaki and shorts standing on a path in…

Five photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is five men doing laundry, captioned 'Dhobi Ghats'.
Photo 2 is a brick building, captioned 'Latrines'.
Photo 3 is a monument, captioned 'War Memorial, Durban'.
Photo 4 is an officer with a large cup and…

Five photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a marching band, captioned 'Baluchistan Pipe Band.
Photo 2 is a large building, captioned 'Cotton Exchange Karachi'.
Photo 3 is a crippled man on his knees, captioned 'Beggar'.
Photo 4 is a temple…

Five photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a street scene, captioned 'Elphinstone St. Karachi'.
Photo 2 is a large building, captioned 'Paradise Cinema, Karachi'.
Photo 3 is a group of 13 airmen, captioned 'No 2 Shift'.
Photo 4 is a flooded…

Four photographs from an album. One more is missing.
Photo 1 is an Indian lady carrying water on her head, captioned 'Pani Lao'.
Photo 2 is a man with a huge headdress pulling a rickshaw with two airmen, captioned 'Zulu & Rickshaw Durban'.
Photo…

Four photographs from an album. One more is missing.
Photo 1 is an Indian lady carrying water on her head, captioned 'Pani Lao'.
Photo 2 is a native with a huge headdress pulling a rickshaw with two airmen, captioned 'Zulu & Rickshaw Durban'.…

Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a dog, captioned 'Skippy'.
Photo 2 is two men on an elephant, captioned 'Whats this'.
Photo 3 is two carts being pulled by bullocks, captioned 'Bullock Cart'.
Photo 4 is a man leading two loaded camels,…

Five photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a church, captioned 'Trinity Church, Karachi'.
Photo 2 is a street scene, captioned 'Native Bazaar'.
Photo 3 is a railway station, captioned 'Cantonment Rly Stn Karachi'.
Photo 4 is a building, captioned…

28 photographs from an album.
Titled 'Simla 1944'.
Photo 1 is a view of hillside from the train, captioned 'The Way Up'.
Photo 2 is another hillside view, captioned 'Showing Road'.
Photo 3 is a steam engine captioned'Engine in Station'.
Photo 4…

Five photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is six people round a funeral pyre, captioned 'Creamation' [sic]
Photo 2 is a monument captioned 'Gateway to India Bombay'.
Photo 3 is a man, plough and cow, captioned 'Farmer' and 'Ploughing'.
Photo 4 is a…

Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a large park.
Photo 2 is a park with a domed structure in the distance.
Photo 3 is the park from the domed structure.
Photo 4 is a building with domed towers.

Ten photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a woman carrying a child, captioned 'Beggar Woman'.
Photo 2 is a building, captioned 'Hindu Temple'.
Photo 3 is a stone milestone, captioned 'Milestone'.
Photo 4 is a street view, captioned 'Bunder…

Eight photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a zebra.
Photo 3 is a lion in a cage.
Photo 4 is two birds.
Photo 5 is a caged animal.
Photo 6 is birds by a lake.
Photo 7 is an airman leaning on a fence, captioned 'A. Davey'.
Photo 8 is an airman…

Seven photographs from an album.
Photos 1, 2 and 3 are a man in shorts doing boxing practice, captioned 'Doug (Bully) Walker'.
Photos 4, 5, 6 and 7 are men and donkeys captioned 'Donkey Races Christmas 1944'.

Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is three footballers.
Photo 2 is 11 footballers.
Both are captioned Flight Mechs XI.
Photo 3 is 14 men, captioned '23 Billet and Bearers'.
Photo 4 is Lord Mountbatten, captioned 'Lord Louis Mountbatten at…

Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a snake charmer with a snake round his shoulders and a mongoose on a rope.
Photo 2 is a snake and a mongoose.
Photo 3 is a group of standing men, captioned 'With HE Govenor [sic] of Sind Sir Hugh Dow…

Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is two men sitting on a fence, captioned 'Alf & Bob Simla/45'.
Photo 2 is a group of nine men and women, captioned 'Group at "Walterton", Simla/45'.
Photo 3 and 4 are five men ready to play tennis, captioned…

Five photographs from an album.
Photo 1 and 5 are two men practising aerobatics on the beach.
Photo 2 is a man on a horse on the beach.
Photo 3 is a sunset over the sea.
Photo 4 is three men on bikes at the beach.

Five photographs from an album. Photo 1 is a view from the B-24 with vague field patterns on the ground. Photo 2, 3 and 5 are the airfield with the runway pattern visible. Photo 4 is looking past the B-24 port wing to the ground. The images are…

Five photographs from an album. They are collectively captioned 'The Trooping Apron Mauripur'.
Photo 1 is a side view of an RAF Liberator, captioned 'Liberator'.
Photo 2 is a side view of a York, captioned 'Avro York'.
Photo 3 is six ground crew…

Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a large building, captioned 'YMCA'.
Photo 2 is a lighthouse, captioned 'Lighthouse, Manora'.
Photo 3 is a large building captioned 'Contact Club'.
Photo 4 is a large building captioned 'R101 Airship…

Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a tramcar loading passengers, captioned 'Tramcar'.
Photo 2 is two bullocks and a man ploughing a padi field, captioned 'Ploughing the Paddyfields'.
Photo 3 is people boarding a train, captioned 'Scene on…