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PALESTINE — THE BRITISH IN PALESTINE — Press photographs. 1945-1948.
Important collection of images showing the end of British rule in Palestine. Many photographs show British soldiers with Jewish prisoners rounded up for transportation to interrogation and detention centres. This was the normal British response to the discovery of large arms caches, some of which are shown in the images here. Scenes of British martial law are well represented, including a shot of deserted streets in Netanya with a British machine gun post hidden in a clump of bushes, while the area is cordoned off during the 'Sergeants Affair' of June 1947. The international political dimension is illustrated by photographs of meetings of the Arab League and the United Nations, as well as a scene of a demonstration in San Francisco against British policy in Palestine. There are three images of General Gordon MacMillan, appointed GOC British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan on 13 February 1947. Just five days after his appointment, the British government decided to place the question of the future of Palestine to the United Nations, making MacMillan the last British GOC of the Mandate. While there are images of British troops leaving Ramallah, and Arab fighters occupying evacuated British positions in Jerusalem, there is also an image dated 4 May 1948 shows British tank transporters entering Palestine from Egypt, just 10 days before the final evacuation of British men and matériel from Palestine.
A group of 58 press photographs, dated 1945-1948, various sizes (largest approx. 205 x 255mm and smaller), most with typescript descriptions on versos, stamps and serial numbers of mainly American press agencies, together with some from British sources (some minor creasing).
Important collection of images showing the end of British rule in Palestine. Many photographs show British soldiers with Jewish prisoners rounded up for transportation to interrogation and detention centres. This was the normal British response to the discovery of large arms caches, some of which are shown in the images here. Scenes of British martial law are well represented, including a shot of deserted streets in Netanya with a British machine gun post hidden in a clump of bushes, while the area is cordoned off during the 'Sergeants Affair' of June 1947. The international political dimension is illustrated by photographs of meetings of the Arab League and the United Nations, as well as a scene of a demonstration in San Francisco against British policy in Palestine. There are three images of General Gordon MacMillan, appointed GOC British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan on 13 February 1947. Just five days after his appointment, the British government decided to place the question of the future of Palestine to the United Nations, making MacMillan the last British GOC of the Mandate. While there are images of British troops leaving Ramallah, and Arab fighters occupying evacuated British positions in Jerusalem, there is also an image dated 4 May 1948 shows British tank transporters entering Palestine from Egypt, just 10 days before the final evacuation of British men and matériel from Palestine.
A group of 58 press photographs, dated 1945-1948, various sizes (largest approx. 205 x 255mm and smaller), most with typescript descriptions on versos, stamps and serial numbers of mainly American press agencies, together with some from British sources (some minor creasing).
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Please note that this lot contains 59 photographs.
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