World War, 1939-1945 - Lebanon

Date: 1942

From: Searell, Luscombe Arthur :Albums of photographs of 2NZEF in Lebanon, Western Desert and Italy

Reference: PA1-o-943

Description: Photographs cover time spent in Lebanon, much of it in Beirut, during April and May 1942. It begins in Egypt at Maadi and Helwan, but these do not comprise more than half a dozen prints. Most of them are rest and recreation photographs, but there are some relating to combat training. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1939-1945]

Reference: PA1-o-1537

Description: Photograph album comprising photographs and postcards taken and collected by GMC who served in the Middle East during World War II. Includes photographs of Middle East cities, harbours, buildings and portraits of New Zealand soldiers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 170 x 250 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1941? to 1942

By: McLean, Stuart, active 1941-1945

Reference: PA1-o-315

Description: Album of photographs probably taken by Corporal Stuart McLean when he was with the 2NZEF in the Middle East, 1941-1942. Photographs include everyday life, monuments and ancient sites in Beirut, Baalbek, Homs (now Hims), Aleppo (now Halab), and parts of Syria. Scenes associated with the various campaigns in the Middle East and North Africa, include one of Nissen huts in Syria, machine gunners and sweeping for landmines in the Western desert, captured enemy guns, the wreck of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 (ME 109), some of the 74,000 prisoners taken at El Alamein, and parades and medal presentation (seen from a distance) after the North African Campaign. Of the 32 pages in the album, only pages 1 to 16 are used (with one photograph attached inside the front cover). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with leather cover, embossed illustration of a Middle Eastern mosque (with camels in the foreground) on front cover; back cover decorated with an Egyptian style frieze; 17 x 23 cm