PALESTINE – Lance Sergeant Ernest Bennet, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards

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£ 1 890
Date de l'enchèreClassic
13.07.2022 10:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Royaume-Uni, London
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Lot 238 | PALESTINE – Lance Sergeant Ernest Bennet, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
PALESTINE – Lance Sergeant Ernest Bennet, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards

Photograph album and a collection of loose photographs and ephemera. Palestine: 1945-1947.

Interesting collection of photographs by a participant in the closing stages of British rule in Palestine. Assembled by Ernest Bennet serving in 3rd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards in Palestine, the photographs depict British servicemen on military exercise (Excerise 'Bustard'), with Arab inhabitants, riots in Jaffa, military convoys, and troops on patrol. Significant photographs include the British soldiers with a captured Irgun flag, and ships docking at Haifa with Jewish Displaced Persons. Bennett often identifies himself with an ink manuscript cross on the photographs. Includes a small collection of personal papers including letters and payslips.



Photograph album, Palestine, c.1945-47, containing 223 photographs (from 47 x 65mm to 178 x 240mm), 23 loosely inserted photographs, most of the loose photographs have manuscript annotations on the back in blue ink, mounted on 18 leaves, oblong folio (203 x 255mm). Contemporary leatherette, metal ring binding (extremities lightly rubbed).

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