82nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery. An album of photographs, 1938-1946, containing 54 monochrome photographs, the first page inscribed 'Eldon Cooke's Photo Album, India, etc.', the images taken in India, Gibraltar, and England, many being photographs of both British and Indian soldiers in and out of uniform, plus views of ships, etc., all mounted (some using photo corners), most with ink manuscript captions (several extensive), ring-bound original boards, a trifle soiled and rubbed, a little wear to extremities, oblong 8vo (Qty: 1) The photographs include: an image of a Walrus aircraft being loaded on board HMS Prince of Wales, signed on verso by 7 crew members of the ship; a photo of HMS Prince of Wales at Scapa Flow, signed on verso by the same 7 crew members, with the caption 'I returned from Gibraltar in this wonderful ship ... a more happy ship's company I have never met. My heart was heavy when I learned that she had been sunk with the loss of so many of her youthful crew'; the meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt on board HMS Prince of Wales in 1941; scenes around Cochin in India such as a Chinese fishing net, and a village bazaar; plus a few photos of haymaking in England before the war. Eldon Cooke apparently started in the 82nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery before traveling to India and elsewhere, being transferred into different heavy anti-aircraft batteries.
82nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery. An album of photographs, 1938-1946, containing 54 monochrome photographs, the first page inscribed 'Eldon Cooke's Photo Album, India, etc.', the images taken in India, Gibraltar, and England, many being photographs of both British and Indian soldiers in and out of uniform, plus views of ships, etc., all mounted (some using photo corners), most with ink manuscript captions (several extensive), ring-bound original boards, a trifle soiled and rubbed, a little wear to extremities, oblong 8vo (Qty: 1) The photographs include: an image of a Walrus aircraft being loaded on board HMS Prince of Wales, signed on verso by 7 crew members of the ship; a photo of HMS Prince of Wales at Scapa Flow, signed on verso by the same 7 crew members, with the caption 'I returned from Gibraltar in this wonderful ship ... a more happy ship's company I have never met. My heart was heavy when I learned that she had been sunk with the loss of so many of her youthful crew'; the meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt on board HMS Prince of Wales in 1941; scenes around Cochin in India such as a Chinese fishing net, and a village bazaar; plus a few photos of haymaking in England before the war. Eldon Cooke apparently started in the 82nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery before traveling to India and elsewhere, being transferred into different heavy anti-aircraft batteries.
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