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PALESTINE – Police Constable Bernard Mullan, Palestine Police Force

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£ 2 000
Auction dateClassic
14.12.2022 10:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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Lot 209 | PALESTINE – Police Constable Bernard Mullan, Palestine Police Force
PALESTINE – Police Constable Bernard Mullan, Palestine Police Force

Two photograph albums. Egypt and Palestine: 1930-1935.

Interesting images of Hebron after the 1929 riots. The unprecedented violence that consumed Palestine at the end of August 1929 included the destruction of the 400 year-old Jewish enclave in Hebron, leaving 64 Jews dead and 54 wounded. The Shaw Commission, sent by the British government to determine the causes of the violence, suggested a complete overhaul of police manpower, and increased recruitment. Presumably Bernard Mullan was one of these new recruits, joining the PPF on 24 January 1930. He would have served during a relatively quiet period in the Mandate’s history, before the Arab Rebellion erupted in 1936, but the evidence of the brutal reality of life in Palestine would have been obvious to him, as these photographs testify.



2 albums: 1. 107 original photographs (most 60 x 85mm, a few larger) mounted on 26 leaves, oblong octavo, 140 x 210mm (extremities faintly); 2. 107 original and souvenir photographs and postcards (63 x 45mm, 60 x 85mm and 70 x 95mm, with a few larger) mounted on 11 leaves, oblong octavo, 215 x 290mm. Original card binding (tears to covers, extremities rubbed). Sold together with a small archive of Mullan’s papers, including: passport, re-engagement papers with the PPF dated 19 January 1932 for a period of 3 years, PPF certificate of discharge, enlistment with the Territorial Army in 1940, two passes while serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service with pass dated 21 August 1943 to Ismailia, Egypt, and another for October 1943 in London. Also included are 3 medals, the 1939-45 Star, the Africa Star and the War Medal 1939-45, along with a note from the Army Council with their condolences that L/Cpl B. Mullan ‘did not live to receive them.’ Sold with a third photograph album, mainly of India, Burma, Hong Kong and Singapore dated 1945 accompanying the lot.

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