Middle East
Collection of RAF aerial reconnaissance photographs of Iraq and Iran, 1920s-30s
£1,071
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Quantity of gelatin silver prints, 14 x 21cm, depicting Samarra, Kirkuk, Baghdad, Kut, Kufa, Az-Zubair, Kifri, Basra, Amara, Hillah, Karbala, Mosul, Ahvaz, Muhammerah (Khorramshahr), Qazvin, Najaf, Tehran and elsewhere, including 2 RAF group portraits
Footnote
Provenance:
By descent from Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett KCB CBE DSO (1882-1945), RAF officer who served in Mesopotamia Group in the early 1920s before being appointed Chief Staff Officer, Iraq Command, in 1929, and Assistant Officer Commanding in 1932.