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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Gerald Green (1928-2019) was Constable No 2640 in the Police Mobile Force (PMF)'s Administration and Technical Company, Jenin (Nov 1946 to Mar 1947), then Armoured Car Troop Driver in Operational Patrols at PP HQ Haifa where he was badly injured in a terror attack (Sep 1947). The PMF was the Palestine Police's fully militarised strike force. Included here are his references, Constable's Manual, Notebook, correspondence about his injury, AMO propaganda, Service Record, 3 maps, 3 PP Magazines and plaque. REFEREES: WG Leishman, Lead Observer 14 Post Royal Observer Corps credits Green's identification skills (30 Jul 1946); and RH Cottrell, Cotswold Pharmacy his daring and initiative (4 Aug). CONSTABLE'S MANUAL: Deputy Inspector General AJ Kingsley-Heath, 2nd edition revised 1941 by O/C Police Depot and Training School J Munro. Blue wraps with PP emblem 11x17cm. Government Printer, Jerusalem. (4), xii, 143pp. G, torn along spine, archival tape to front hinge. Green's PMF details inside front. This covers the PP Constitution; Organisation; General Duty; Meetings & Processions; Investigation of Crime; Arrest & Search; Evidence; Criminal Procedure; Judicial System; updated Ordinances, Rules & Orders. Worldcat lists only the 1st edition (1931) and Hebrew edition (1934). NOTEBOOK: Navy cloth with silver PP emblem 10x15cm. 100pp refill (unused). (1)pp instructions for crime scenes in English, Arabic and Hebrew to record dates, statements, witnesses, persons, property, distances, marks, injuries, stained clothing etc. Green's details entered. G. HAIFA EXPLOSION: 2 letters from PP Assistant Inspector General FW Syer + 6 telegrams and 2 letters from Colonial Office Under Secretary for the High Commissioner informing Green's father and updating on progress: "dangerously ill", "doing well", "condition unchanged", "transferred from dangerously ill to seriously ill", "improved considerably", and "now out of danger" (30 Sep - 10 Oct 1947). His Service Record states 20 days off after this. ARAB MILITARY ORGANISATION: "For the Record - The following information has been gathered from Communiques and Press releases by the Government of Palestine - British Soldiers! British Policemen! British Civilians! Remember the following dates and keep alive in your memory the following names". Printed wraps 16x23cm. 23pp recording 44 "incidents of Jewish outrages against the Britons" from 6 Nov 1944 to 31 Dec 1947 with 170 dead and 418 injured. Green's is n35 (10 killed, 12 seriously injured), Lord Moyne n1, the King David Hotel n4. The AMO, attached to the Mufti's Arab Higher Committee, issued such material to urge British neutrality (George Milner Collection, St Antony's College). G. No other copies located. SERVICE RECORD: Pink card 36x28cm printed both sides with Green's photo, signature, and ms entries for personal and family; education; appointments; divisions served; courses attended; medical; arms and saddlery. G, folded. MAPS: (1) Palestine - Police Boundaries PDR Misc 3686, RE 13 Field Survey Squadron 6/47. Colour 1/500K 63x48cm. G, folded with small perforations. This shows Civil District, Sub District and Police Station Boundaries, HQ, District HQs, Divisional HQs, Stations and Posts. Worldcat records it with no locations // (2) Survey of Palestine Motor Map 1947. Colour 41x62cm 1/500K with town plans in illustrated panels with Ringart's Bookshop ticket 12x21cm. NF with Green's Armoured Car Troop details dated 31 Aug 1947 inside front / (3)-(4) 2 copies - Palestine North MDR 1509/12375 Jan 1946, colour 1/250K 65x91cm. G, folded, repaired, one with ms "RT-WT Control Room / Haifa Operational Patrols". PP MAGAZINE: Mar, Jun, Dec 1947 (v1, n1, 2, 4). Revived after suspension in 1942 due to paper shortage. Edited by LH Lovett, published quarterly by Force Welfare Officer. Illustrated wraps 17x24cm. 80, 71, 56pp. G. The latter names the Haifa fatalities. Rare. PP PLAQUE: Old Comrades Association emblem on wood base 15x18cm.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. The first 6 issues of PMF's monthly staff magazine bound together in untitled brown marble paper boards backed with brown cloth 15x23cm. The first issue is dated 1 June 1945, the rest undated but July - November with the latter anticipating a Special Xmas issue. Each is in its original b/w printed slightly glossy wraps with masthead incorporating the Palestine Police emblem. All printed at Warhaftig's Press. 24, 28, 40, 40, 24, 28pp with b/w photos and several local adverts. Generally very good, foxed in places with some staining. Extremely rare, unrecorded on Worldcat and Library Hub, with very few other references found. A later issue (Vol 3 no 2, Aug 1946) is in the Desmond Morton Collection at St Antony's College Oxford. The Palestine Police Mobile Force (PMF) was formed under the Palestine Police (PP) in 1944 as a fully militarised strike force. It was a "desperate" measure to deal with escalating violence in the final years of the British Mandate. It was initiated and planned by PP Inspector General John Rymer-Jones and Senior Staff Officer Michael Joseph McConnell. With no funding from local government, Rymer-Jones visited the War Office in London, which in spite of pressing needs in France, gave £2M to form the force. It included 800 personnel drawn from those who had seen active military service in Italy, North Africa and Britain. Organised in four companies, it was headquartered at Jenin with an administrative unit at Ramallah. Their battle dress distinguished them from the rest of the PP, with whom they had an uneasy relationship. They were trained at a special facility at Jenin in paramilitary tactics, spotting drug smugglers, the law, and Arabic. Known as "Rymer's Babes", new PP recruits were required to train and serve in a PMF unit first. It was disbanded in 1947. The magazine was written, edited and produced by PMF Constables. The editors are named as LH Lovett and RAJ Trew of the Welfare Office in Jenin. Its title is not explained, but "Shu" may be a transliteration of the Levantine Arabic word for "What". Issue 1 opens with a welcome by Lt-Col LL Brighton (PP Superintendent and PMF Second in Command) stating "During the past year we, in Jenin, have watched (and nursed) the PMF through many 'teething troubles' --- Now we have a pretty strong 'bite'". In each issue Trew interviews a "PMF Personality", who shares information on his origins, education, military service, family situation, hobbies etc. These include Brighton, Lt-Col Robin Stable (PMF Commanding Officer and PP Assistant Inspector General), JAS Adolph (PP Deputy Superintendent and PMF Adjutant), Rymer-Jones, WT Southgate (PMF Officer Commanding and Training Company), and J Horlock (British Constable, PMF HQ "Q" Branch). Southgate's is relatively brief, stating "The Official Secrets Act prevented Mr Southgate going more fully into details concerning his actual duties" prior to the PP, but a hint is dropped that he wears the pale blue wings of a parachutist. And Pickett refused to confide his experiences as a POW in Tobruk. There is news from different parts of the PMF (Tel Aviv, Ramallah, 1, 2 and 3 Companies, Jenin Camp). And on PMF recreational activities including sports (hockey, cricket, boxing, swimming, badminton, athletics meetings, tennis, shooting, indoor pursuits), its Camera Club and Dance Band. Other content is generally informative or entertainment related. Wartime experiences are shared from the French Resistance and in South Africa. Photography in Palestine is discussed as a hobby. "E.H." writes on local history (Megiddo, Mount Tabor, Nazareth, Cana of Galilee). There are regular features on forthcoming films invariably with photos of leading ladies, pieces on swing jazz, social and personal news, stories and poetry, and a monthly pin up. (References: Gannon, "Irish Policemen in the Palestine Mandate", University of Limerick, 2014; British Palestine Police Association website; "Film: Palestine Police", IWM; St Antony's College). …