Middle East Centre Archive

George Edwards Photo Gallery: Egypt, Libya, Syria and Palestine, 1941-1943

The images from this gallery are from the George Edwards Collection GB165-0533 Albums 1-3. The captions are those that appear in the album or on the reverse of the images. Lance Corporal George Edwards served in the Royal Engineers during the North African Campaign in the Second World War during which time these photographs were taken. Further information on George Edwards can be found in the George Edwards Collection Catalogue (pdf file) This gallery has been divided into three parts, corresponding to the Albums in the collection; Album 1 (Egypt 1941), Album 2 (Libya 1943) and Album 3 (Syria and Palestine 1942-43)

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Album 1: Photos from Egypt, 1941

George Edwards Alb 1/3 Top of the Pyramid, Giza	George Edwards Alb 1/6 Egyptian Sunset
George Edwards Alb 1/11 Soliman Pasha Street, Cairo	George Edward Alb 1/19 Egyptian Barber on Street Corner, Cairo
George Edwards Alb 1/26 Study of a Camel	George Edwards Alb 1/27 Fares Please? A Full Load
George Edwards Alb 1/39 Native Guide	George Edwards Alb 1/64 The Suez Canal – 1914-1918 Memorial
George Edwards Alb 1/72 Egyptian Glamour Girls. Bints	George Edwards Alb 1/79 Myself at "Ataka" near Suez
George Edwards Alb 1/114 Native Dhows	George Edwards Alb 1/147 Sunset over the Nile
George Edwards Alb 1/165 Pigeon Lofts, Cairo	George Edwards Alb 1/185 Only 15 Miles from Cairo
George Edwards Alb 1/186 Smiler, Akata	George Edwards Alb 1/228 Evening on the Nile

Album 2: Photos from Libya, 1943

George Edwards Alb 2/1 On the Way to the Gages at Mersa Mutruh	George Edwards Alb 2/2 El Alamein Station
George Edwards Alb 2/13 Churchill and Tedder, First Visit to North Africa	George Edwards Alb 2/32 Bengasi Cath
George Edwards Alb 2/38 German 88mm	George Edwards Alb 2/41
George Edwards Alb 2/46 Messersmit [Messerschmitt] 109E	George Edwards Alb 2/56 A Gerry Ammunition Dump Blown Up At Tobruk
George Edwards Alb 2/65 Tobruk Cemetary	George Edwards Alb 2/82 Banco Di Italia, Tripoli. Bank of Italy
George Edwards Alb 2/96 Inside the Damaged Church at Tobruck	George Edwards Alb 2/102 Italain [Italian] Guns At Tobruk
George Edwards Alb 2/117 Some of Our Boys on Captured Italain [Italian] Guns at Tobruk, Which They Used To Good Purpose During The Siege in 1941. This Ones [One’s] Bag in Three Stukas

Album 3: Photos from Libya, 1942-43

George Edwards Alb 3/2 Clock Tower, Beirout	George Edwards Alb 3/3 Mountain Railway, Jdeide, Syria
George Edwards Alb 3/10 Baalbeck, Syria – Roof Carvings, Baalbeck	George Edwards Alb 3/17 Harum [Harem] Quarter, Damascus
George Edwards Alb 3/27 The Citadel & Town, Allepo [Aleppo]	George Edwards Alb 3/37 A Good Load, A Native Carrier
George Edwards Alb 3/41 Lebanon Cedars	George Edwards Alb 3/51 A Syrian Arab Girl
George Edwards Alb 3/58 Baalbeck, Syria	George Edwards Alb 3/60 Myself at Jdeide
George Edwards Alb 3/137 Jerusalem, Palestine	George Edwards Alb 3/143 A Jewish Begger [Beggar]
George Edwards Alb 3/149 Jewish Children	George Edwards Alb 3/154 Jerusalem – Saint Omar Mosque
George Edwards Alb 3/159 Jerusalem – In King David’s Tower	George Edwards Alb 3/196 Our Pets at Douglas House, Haifa
George Edwards Alb 3/204 Scene of the Christian Massacre	George Edwards Alb 3/223 Capernaum
George Edwards Alb 3/246 Palestine Arabs	George Edwards Alb 3/267 High Alter [Altar] inside the Monestery [Monastery]
George Edwards Alb 3/277 Olive	George Edwards Alb 3/278 Maritime Squill