
Rhyanon Demery
Head of Sale
Sold for £1,062.50 inc. premium
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Includes: upwards of 50 images of Baghdad (St. George's Church, River Tigris, "High Street" by day and night, Ur Junction railway, Lancaster and Maude bridges, Hindiyah Barrage, aerial views, etc.); a series of "snap shots" of a tour "up north" including visits to Mosul, Rowandusy Gorge, Kaniquin oil fields, Kurdarrah, and Basrah (several of the Bas-relief sculptures); 10 images of Sheikh Mahumd "surrender" to Major A.T. Wilson; local inhabitants including barber, butcher, "Hubble Bubble smoker", a falconer; a good series of the buildings at the Royal Airforce base at Hinaidi, and the activities of the staff (the parachute workshop, playing hockey and athletics, "fishing" in a ditch, cross-dressed costumes for Christmas performances in 1928 and 1931, eating water melon; "first week with the car"); approximately 25 showing aircraft in flight or grounded, including "Parachute machine J7872", "Major Stack's record machine (force landed at Hinaidi"), "Myself & Fl. McEvoy Whappitt", and crashed planes at Hinaidi and banks of the Tigris.
Provenance: Probably compiled by William Reynish, Royal Air Force, with a loosely inserted certificate issued to him whilst stationed at Malta in 1933, and a photograph of him in Arab headdress with knife, captioned "Bill, Hinaidi, Iraq, Jan. 9, 1931".