CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL SUBJECTS MIDDLE EAST 1942

Album 1 contains: various scenes at a General Hospital in Tobruk, including: portraits of nurses, nurses assisting with operations and attending to a patient; scenes at British General Headquarters in Cairo, including: interior and exterior views of the building, portraits of Colonel Knox, Major Bowen-Jones, Major Helm, Colonel Astley, Air Marshal Tedder, Wing Commander Bray, Flying Officer Watson and Deputy Air Marshal Drummond at their desks and in the Map Room; scenes on board a British cruiser on convoy duty, including: views of the convoy, sailors reading signals, doing physical training, eating, drinking and relaxing, members of the Under Twenty Club, RAF personnel being landed, bound for the Middle East, views of the ship's bakery and meat store, portraits of Cecil Beaton, Commander Romer, Lieutenant Commander Roberts, passenger Commander Daintree, Paymaster Lieutenant Commander Guthrie and Captain Harvey; nurses in a Malaria Ward at a Middle East Hospital; British Fleet Air Arm ground staff and a Fleet Air Arm plane.