£100
World War Two, RAF Middle East. 1041953 LAC Walter 'Wally' Sharpe, approx. 75 manuscript letters, dated 1944-45, all addressed to to his parents, Mr & Mrs Sharpe, 38, Worral Avenue, Arnold, Nottingham, while he was overseas on active service, a handful of the letters are from his contemporaries also serving in the armed forces, the nature of the correspondence is typical, but does include occasional vignettes of domestic life in Palestine and the Holy Land at the time, three or four are illustrated with pen-and-ink cartoons or vignettes, mostly passed and stamped by RAF Censor 152, also a 1943 Christmas menu from when stationed at Downham Market, Norfolk, an Xmas 1944 Greetings of the Season 'letter' from Royal Air Force Middle East, a defective copy of the Palestine Illustrated News, Special D-Day Edition, Vol. XII No. 238, Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 6, 1944, a contemporary herbarium, Souvenir of Jerusalem, n.d., with 10 b/w named-views, an album of souvenir photographic prints of local topography and approx. 30 photograph snapshots of Egypt, Suez and his comrades, a later album of photographic prints and postcards of Rome, etc
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