84 squadron (1 résultats)
Autres imagesLangue : anglais
Edité par Royal Air Force (RAF), (Hinaidi, Baghdad), 1922
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Ajouter au panierNo Binding. Etat : Very Good. A unique set of 50 original b/w aerial views from 1922-29, @20x16cm, most with detailed captions and notes in the print, some with RAF ink stamps and captions to versos. Most VG to near fine, some chipped to corners, one with tape repair to verso, one 2-hole punched, one with extraction residue to v…erso, one heavily annotated. The earliest date to between the Cairo Conference in March 1921 which entrusted Iraq's security to the RAF, and enacting that plan via the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of October 1922. This cost saving measure transferring responsibility away from the Army, involved creating new landing grounds in defended areas, which negated the need for vulnerable supply lines. The RAF was asked to deal with multiple threats to the new Hashemite monarchy from Kurdistan (then in a state of rebellion), Turkish expansionism, the Shia, and the Sultanate of Nejd, and conduct punitive bombing strikes for non payment of tax. Its aerial surveys produced photos such as these to make maps to conduct its operations supported by armoured cars and Levies on the ground. As much of the threat in the early 1920s came from the north, many photos cover Kurdistan, with other areas including Diyala, Nasiriyah, Kirkuk, Basrah, Baghdad and Nineveh. Subjects include Landing Grounds (LG) and nearby settlements, villages, a bombing raid, police on the march, terrain, Bedu, and new hospitals. Captions give location, date, time, altitude, focal length and coordinates. Some credit the Squadron responsible, with many earlier ones naming 84 Squadron or Air HQ. Notes in the print give LGs, terrain warnings and advice, heights, directions to other settlements etc. PHOTOS (date order): Zakho LG 23.5.22 (Kurdistan) / Shergat LG 6.6.22 (Kurdistan) / Sulaimaniyah LG 7.6.22 (Kurdistan) / Amarah Drome 18.8.22 (SE) / Faisal, 28.11.22, composite image / Suq-Ash-Shuyukh, Hasawiyah & Hacham Area 2.3.23, composite image, 84 Sqdn (Diyala) / Koi Aerodrome and Town 7.4.23, composite image, AHQ Photo Section (Kurdistan) / Nasiryah Left Bank LG 27.8.23 / Basrah LG 10.11.23 / Ridge 24.5.24 / Baghdad and Khota Bridge 18.8.24 / Tainal Bridge 8.12.24 (Kurdistan) / Marwit village 14.6.25 (Kurdistan) / Levy Co-op, Kanitwatman 15.6.25 (Kurdistan) / Erbil District 4.8.25 (Kurdistan). Appears to be an overhead view of cavalry moving in formation / Balad Ruiz 19.8.25 composite image (Diyala) / Shaikh Jigri Kirkuk 2.10.25 / Police on the march 17.10.25 / Mishkiban 27.10.25. Bombing raid with smoke rising (Kurdistan) / Mishkiban as above without caption in print, "Rush copy" pencilled to verso / Mishkaban 28.10.25, the day after with many small craters / Maude General Hospital 30.4.26 (Basrah) / Rukhaimiyah 12.11.26 / Rukhaimiyah 10.1.27 composite image / Baquba LG 23.6.27 (Diyala) / Naft Khanah LG 2.2.28, composite image (Diyala) / Naft Khanah LG 2.2.28 annotated view / Aqra (Akre) LG 27.3.28 (Kurdistan) / Bille LG 27.3.28 (Kurdistan) / Shergat LG 23.4.28 (with railway station, Tigris) / Bebadi LG 25.4.28 (Kurdistan) / Batas LG 1.5.28 (Kurdistan) / Erbil LG 4.5.28 (Kurdistan) / Feishkabur LG 18.5.28 (Kurdistan) / Semel LG 18.5.28 (Kurdistan) / Tel Awainat 14.6.28 (Nineveh) / Tel Ashor 20.7.28 (Kurdistan) / Quiyarah LG 7.8.28 (Nineveh) / RAF Depot ME 19.9.28 / Baghdad West Aerodrome 17.10.28 (ditch, bund, telegraph wires, railway, barbed wire) / Nasiryah Left Bank LG 27.2.29 with Shatrah Rd marked / RAF General Hospital 26.4.29 (Hinaidi, Baghdad), on 2 photos stuck together, some loss, heavily annotated in red ink (Tigris in flood, date garden, wasteland, desert, cantonment, facilities and quarters, and personal references - "Pi dog alley", "Pi dogs yelling ground, "my office") / RAF Mosul 2.7.29. The undated ones include an unlocated image of black Bedu tents and a military encampment with 3 biplanes flying over / Qara Ghan Camp (with bridge, possibly IPC) / 5 views of Maude Memorial Hospital c1921.
