middle east forces (13 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. vi, 46; previous owner's name inside rear wrapper ("Shepherd S. B. Ltd. 26 B.S.D. M.E.F.") with a couple of pencilled notes in the same hand, minor staining, else very good in original printed wrappers, a little rubbed and creased. According to the printed information at the front of this booklet, "the Middle East Rifle Meeting 1945 has been organised to encourage a high standard of shooting throughout the whole of the Middle East Command". The inter-force championship took place in Maadi, Egypt, and was won overall by the Americans. This guide to the event includes details of "What's it all About?", services and shops available in the Camp, information about Cairo, rules, and details of the shooting.

Paperback. Condizione: Good+. Original paper-covered spine over paper wrappers, lacks front cover, wear to corners, volume 2 only, August 1942, text block complete, numerous charts (one folding), embellished with several hand-written & type-written leaves, relevant ink notations of troop and artillery deployments, Copac lists only Imperial War Museum, scarce. ; 6" x 8"; 72 pages.

Hard back binding in publisher's original olive green cloth covers, gilt title lettering to the upper panel. 5½'' x 4''. Contains 82 printed pages of text In Very Good condition. Confirmation dedication to the front free end paper dated 18th October 1940 and signed by The Bishop of Rochester 'C. Pearson?'. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEOLOGY & RELIGION.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. "Cairo traffic stopped and thousands of people lined balconies and pavements on the morning of 8 June to watch the pageantry of Empire troops marching through the streets in honour of the King's birthday parade" (Australian War Memorial). Original staple-bound yapp wraps 22x19cm, with royal coat of arms in colour to the front. (1), 9, (1)pp. Wraps fair only, foxed and creased with short closed tears, interiors good. A tick by the London Irish Rifles in the Order of March suggests the affiliation of the owner (p5). The Parade featured forces from across the Empire organised into Mechanised and Dismounted Groups, with a separate Group for Women's Services. Ambassador Lord Killearn took the Salute. In attendance were Diplomats from 22 countries, among them Afghanistan, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, US, USSR and several European countries with larger delegations from Greece and Yugoslavia. Representing King Farouk were the explorer Hassanein Bey, PM El-Nahhas Pasha, and senior Air Force and Army figures. Among the British were Lord Moyne (then Resident Minister), CiC ME General Sir Bernard Paget, and CiC RAF ME Air Marshal Sir Keith Park. Not recorded on Worldcat. An online search located copies at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and National Library of New Zealand.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Printed staple-bound wraps 17 x 24cm. 39pp. Wraps good, marked and creased, with small patch of scuffing to the bottom left front corner. Interiors generally very good, with corner creasing. This is credited to Major General H.R. Hone, Chief Civil Affairs Officer, Civil Affairs Branch, GHQ, MEF, dated 15 April 1943 (p24), with Appendix 1 credited to B.L. Montgomery (Tripolitania - Enemy Property Proclamation). Printed by Societe de Publications Egyptiennes, Alexandria. Very rare - traced to only 1 institution (Harvard College Library OCLC 83150155) - none on Copac. This manual explains the role of the Custodian of Enemy Property, and the treatment of private and state property in occupied territories in line with international law. Its publication coincides with the closing stages of North African Campaign June 1940 - May 1943, and the related Western Desert and Tunisian Campaigns, which resulted in Italian Libya being placed under British administration, and the expulsion of the Axis forces of Germany, Italy, and Vichy France from North Africa. The principal author, Major General Herbert Ralph Hone (1896-1992), a qualified barrister, had been transferred from his role as Attorney General of Uganda / Commandant of the Uganda Defence Force to General Headquarters Middle East in 1941 to advise on law in the conquered Italian territories and later as Chief Political Officer. In March 1943 he was promoted to Major-General, shortly after which he prepared this work. In August 1945 Hone was sent to Malaya, to oversee the handover to civilian rule, and was present at the Japanese surrender at Singapore on 12 September.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. "This booklet has been prepared in order to make the long journey from Middle East to England more interesting by telling you something about the places that you will pass through or near" (p3). Original staple-bound blue, black and white wraps featuring a wraparound pictorial route map 14x15cm. Printed by The Printing and Stationery Services, MEF in September 1945 (9-45). 16pp including wraps, a second double-page route map, and several attractive illustrations in-text. Good or better, tanned and spotted. This looks to be extremely rare, with Library Hub locating 1 copy at the National Archives. Worldcat does not record it. MEDLOC (or Middle East Direct Line of Communication) was established to return troops to the UK by the overland route. This booklet was issued for those being discharged, or on leave. On the latter, MEF Commander-in-Chief Bernard Paget distinguishes in his opening statement between "Liaps" (Leave In Advance of Python) and "Lilops" (Leave In Lieu of Python), where "Python" related to the system of home leave based on length of service overseas. As shown on the cover map, the route involved travelling through the Mediterranean by boat from Port Said to Toulon (via Crete, Malta, Lipari, Pantelleria, Sardinia and Corsica), thence by train to Dieppe. The interior map details the rail journey "Across France" with food stops at Bram near Carcassonne and at Neuvy Pailloux, with the ultimate destination at Newhaven. The texts describe the Mediterranean cruise, Napoleon's first victory (Toulon), cypresses and trade (Toulon to Marseilles), song writers of Provence, the Romans, the fortress at Carcassonne, a British victory (Toulouse), etc, including a "glimpse of Paris", and finally Newhaven "where thousands, who have gone abroad as holidaymakers, have landed before you". The in-text illustrations to the bottom corner of each page give traveller's eye impressions of the route with mileages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. A collection of Movement Control (MC) related material for WW2 era Egypt and Palestine, including "Administrative Instructions", "Amendments No. 1", and "Standing Orders". The Instructions, dated Feb 1941, were issued at the end of Operation Compass (9 Dec 1940 - 9 Feb 1941), which had resulted in the destruction of the Italian 10th Army, the recapture of western Egypt, and occupation of Cyrenaica. With this victory, most Allied forces were redeployed to support the defence of Greece under Operation Lustre, leaving only a weak force defending the gains made in North Africa. The Amendments dated 1 April 1941 were issued in the midst of redeployment (March-April). (1) INSTRUCTIONS: "Administrative Instructions for Expeditionary Forces proceeding from the Middle East - Not to be Published", Feb 1941. Original black titled brown cloth 14x21cm. Printed by 512 (A Forward Survey) Company, which was set up in the caves at Tura outside Cairo. 32pp with Appendix III and IV bound together in 1 booklet v pp inserted loosely in front pocket as called for. Covers good with wear to corners and rippling to cloth, interiors and inserts near fine, tanned. No author, "by authority of", or responsible department is indicated, but the diverse range of bodies and locations involved suggests a coordinating role for GHQ Middle East Forces in Cairo, with MC bases located in the Cairo Area, Western Desert, Alexandria Port and Area, Suez Canal Area (Port Said, Ismailia Sub-Area, Suez), Lydda, and Haifa Port and Haifa Area through MC, HQ, Palestine (p23), as well as Field authorities. It contains information on secrecy, maps, pay, store and supply accounts, clothing, rationing, private property, movement to port of embarkation; documents, preparing vehicles, marking baggage, etc with appendices on Standing Orders for OC Troop Trains and instructions on board, reports and returns, marking baggage, and the loosely inserted appendices list clothing, necessities, and additional articles for certain personnel. // (2) AMENDMENTS: "Administrative Instructions etc - Amendments No. 1 - Not to be Published", 1 April 1941, self-wraps 12x19cm, 6pp. No accreditations as above. Fine, tanned. Containing several additions and deletions to the above. // (3) STANDING ORDERS: "Standing Orders for Embarkation of Personnel in the Middle East", GHQ MEF CRME / 1789 / Mov. 1, 1941, PME Rota. 59.D. Copy of typescript, self wraps, 11pp stapled foolscap. Good, lightly creased with wear around lower staple. Explicitly credited to General Headquarters, Middle East Forces, this was issued "to reduce the detail usually contained in Movement Control Orders to the absolute minimum" (p1). Part I covers embarkation, baggage, dress, equipment, command, documentation, duties, finance, posts, arms etc, including Declaration form for personal effects. Also included is a tariff of fares for non-entitled personnel and their families listing several destinations in Africa, Arabia, South Asia and Australasia. Part II covers Special Standing Orders Peculiar to the Evacuation of Prisoners of War. Extremely rare with Worldcat locating only 2 of item (1): Australian War Memorial and UNSW Canberra (OCLC 220686268). Not recorded on Library Hub.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Complete 2-Part set. Very good, foxed, with some pencilled marginalia and faint underlining to Part II. Both are dated 11-42 to the printer's code, at the time of the decisive Second Battle of El Alamein, and the Anglo-US occupation of French Morocco and Algeria in Operation Torch. Drawing on experiences administering conquered Italian colonies in Africa, they were issued separately for different staff. PART I: staple-bound, 3-hole punched 10x17cm. (2), 26pp. This is for General Staff officers, and units engaged in occupying enemy territories. A chart shows the "Chain of Responsibility for Military Government of Occupied Enemy Territory". Sections define this government; the nature of occupation (relationship with local population, power and its restrictions etc); aims; organisation; preparations; early stages (proclamations, leading citizens, offices, communications, treasuries, curfew, enemy officials, police, arrest of suspects, contact with tribes, food supplies, requisitioning, labour); treatment of the population (obligations, punishments, reprisals etc) and property. // PART II: staple-bound, 14x21cm, 51pp. An alphabetically arranged set of guidelines dealing with agriculture, air raids, arms, banks, boundaries, censorship, comms, currency, enemy property, economics, education, enemy officials, finance, frontier protection against native raiding, intelligence, labour, land, law, medical, municipalities, police, post, propaganda, property, security, supplies and rationing, rail, roads, telegraphs and telephones, and Trade. Very rare with Worldcat locating to 3 institutions: Australian War Memorial, Columbia University, University of Pittsburgh (OCLC 220511231, 29835560).

Card Covers. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Card covers. Uncommon "Brief Notes" translated from a captured German document. Supplement no 2. 1st Edition May 1942. Believed printed in Middle East. 23pp., plans, appendices (note double columned pages so quite a lot of text. Neat number 11 to cover, else very nice example. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. "Notified in E.-in-C. T.I. No. 100." "E.-inC. Branch, G. H. Q., M.E.F. May, 1945" "Restricted" "Not to be Published. The information given in this document is not to be communicated, either directly or indirectly to the Press or to any person not authorised to receive it." Pp. [16], 34, xx; some pages printed to the recto only; printed in 'typescript'. Orginal brown cloth backed printed boards in portfolio style secured with original lace to the spine edge. Very good with light wear only. Contents clean and tight, unmarked. A very good copy of this rare document - no copy recorded in any British library. Size: 4to - Tall (21 x 33cm). Book.

Condizione: Gut. 8°, 24 Seiten und eine Faltkarte im ANhang, illustrierter Okart. (kartoniert) Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren sonst guter Zustand - 1943. Äußerst selten! cw87423 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 90.

All three are air mail letter cards. Each with 'Field Post Office' postmark and censor's stamp. The three in fair condition, lightly aged and creased. Letter One: To his father, 17 March [1944]. Addressed to 'My dear Father', with the envelope addressed to 'Sir E. de la Rue Bart. | The Sol | Cookham | Berkshire | England.' 1p, 4to, and 1p., 12mo. A light-hearted letter, in which he jokes about his father's inability to read the word 'Aviv' ('I suppose a series of "i"s and "v"s is rather difficult even if printed') and find the place on the map ('it is much larger than Bournemouth'). He also thanks him 'for all your work on investing my "large" fortune. If I stay out here much longer it really will be large! I dont spend all my pay anyhow so have got £100 here I think or something like it.' He hopes to return home that year: 'Five years out here is exactly five years too long.' He jokes that he will 'fly a neutral flag on the way back in case I get caught up in the second front or maybe the third front.' He explains that 'people of my age in what they call a combatant unit unless he is a Lt Col or above, must be getting very old! He 'carried an unused roll of bromo [lavatory paper] in my box for a long time & never used it. By chance it was put into use a month ago. I noticed each sheet was torn and buried at the bottom of it was a large piece of shrapnal! [sic] If that's where all the shrapnal goes I wont mind much!' He has sold his gun for ten pounds, 'on the strength of my belief I wont be here next winter. I sold it for what I gave for it £10 but I was told I was stupid as it was worth a lot more. I expect it was as one cannot get a gun in any place in the Middle East and it was in perfect condition - of course!' He ends by commenting on the quality of the food, and the 'stockings at £2 a pair'' he is sending his sister. Letter Two. To his sister, 4 May [1944]. Addressed (as is Letter Three) to 'My dear Diana', with the envelope addressed to Miss de la Rue, Rusper, Horsham, Sussex.' 3pp., 12mo. He begins 'I went into Cairo a week ago and bought you some food. We are not allowed to send more than 5 lbs and not more than 2 lbs of the same thing. So I sent you some jam, currants, and tea. I actually sent it to Mother so you may get it in 3 months time.' The 'heat is getting deplorable': 'You would have smiled this last week as I was told 1/2 an hour before, that I had to ride a motorbicycle in the desert for four days and nights. I had never been on one in my life and had half an hour to learn!' He 'only had one fall but got continuously stuck in the deep sand on the first day'. He tells her that she would have been 'awfully interested at times as we stood in a forest of trees. Tress were lying everywhere. They were exactly as they had fallen. The bark was the same colour as ordinary bark. You could see where all the catterpillars [sic] had burrowed in the wood and the rotten wood shone as if it were still wet. Some of the trees looked as if they had been choped [sic] down. They were all fosalized [sic] 3,000 years old! The extraordinary thing is they were still on the surface.' Towards the end he writes: 'I dont suppose it matters at all now telling you what you must have known before that last February year ago I was at Bengazi. It was far the best place to be so far as this regiment went, as in those days were were split up in Tobrook Crete and Cyprus as well.' They had 'a terribly comfortable mess': 'The Italian police in the town were charming, but the Australians I am afraid behaved very badly. It was always the soldiers with the big hats who the people did not like as they would say.' Letter Three: To his sister, 4 October [1944]. 3pp., 12mo. In pencil. He sees in the press that 'Bobby has got the D.S.O. How wonderful! [.] It was published in the papers alongside Hitler's speech to the Reich, and that seemed Bobbie's answer.' A great deal has been happening, but he can only say that 'the total show was magnificent'. 'Mother wishes Wavell back. I remember General Ritchie saying to me in Cairo he considered Wavell's effort one of the greatest of the war - to accomplish what he did with so little. [.] One must remember the Italians simply didn't try. When one Italian Colonel was asked why he surrendered he replied "because if I hadn't I might have been killed" [.] Winston Churchill has said this is the most favourable battle ground we can fight Germany on. He may be right. An enormous amount of Axis material lies at the bottom of the Mediterranean [.] When we were at Bengasi long ago was it a mistake to take away the troops and send them to Greece? It turned Yugoslavia for us and in turn turned the German army for over a month away from Russia'. He reports that 'A quite inconceivable sand storm has just blown up and everything is 6 inches deep in sand, nothing left standing and most things blown away! [.] I am still wondering if Bill Seely is a prisoner. I never hear from Lavender so I should not know. Bobby says John K was killed taking prisoners. His sergeant major did not tell me that, but it may have been so. The Germans here not long ago came forward with their arms raised in surrender with Tommy guns strapped to their backs. I am glad our men were not taken in and they suffered considerably from their own rotten ways.' He returns to the subject of the trees - 'It makes one wonder what this country was like 50,000 years ago. Some of the trees are seventeen yards long.' He sends news of 'Bernard', 'Eddie', 'Harry Scott', and 'George', and ends with in the hope that he will see 'John' and his farm, as well as Bobby, in the future. Towards the end of his life de la Rue engaged in a notorious menage a trois with his wife Christine and David Liddell-Grainger.

No Binding. Condizione: Fair. An extremely rare survivor. Printed paper, (1)pp, 20x25cm, English and Arabic text with US Government crest. Intact and complete but fair only, with hard fold creases, yellowed tape reinforcements to the folds applied front and back, two-hole punched (not affecting text), with staple perforations at the corners. Undated, c1942-43. The US Army Forces in the Middle East (USAFIME) was formed in August 1942 to oversee its North Africa Mission, and Persian Gulf Command. To facilitate liaison, it was headquartered in Cairo alongside the British Middle East Command, which is referenced in the chit as the British High Command of the East. The US began to include blood chits in its air crew survival kits in December 1941. The early Middle East examples of which this is one, tended to be paper and therefore very fragile. Later versions for the China-Burma-India Theatre were printed on more durable cloth. The text reads: "To every noble Arab / Greetings and peace of Allah be upon you. The bearer of this letter is an officer of the United States of America, assisting the British Government and a faithful friend to all Arab Nations. We beg of you to treat him well, guard his life from every harm and supply his needs of food and drinks, and guide him to the nearest British encampment. You will be rewarded generously in money for all your services. Peace and mercy of Allah be upon you. / By a permit of the British High Command of the East. / Useful words: American; American Flying Officer; Friend; Water; Food; Sick; Take me to the English and you will be rewarded.".