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Description: | Three personal albums of L A Poulton, driver with the Royal Army Service Corps, mostly of ambulances, covering the period 1916-1919. All albums show the equipment of his units particularly well. Album 1: Belgium - Alexandria. Destruction to towns in Belgium, Ypres, Bruges, Nieuport, Knocke 1918, service in Salonika 1916, Egypt mostly Alexandria and camp at Ras-El-Tin with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916-1917; Album 2: Montazah-Cairo-Khan Yunnis service with the EEF; Port Said, Cairo, organisation of the transport unit and its equipment, Indian servicemen, sightseeing trips, BRCS convalescence outings, riots at Calibub, Kantaro, native bath parade and journey to Palestine; Album 3: The advance to Jerusalem; incidents on the road including overturned caterpillar tractor and crashed aircraft, the wire road, Dier-el-Behah, Beersheba, Hebron, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Jericho and Jaffa. Scenes of native and social life and celebration of the Armistice (1 photo). Destruction of Turkish equipment in Dead Man's Valley near Nablus. Journey back to Boulogne, arriving 6 June 1919 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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