MERDJAYOUN. GENERAL LAVARACK INSPECTS THE GUARD OF HONOUR ON THE OCCASION OF THE (FIRST) HANDING ...

Place Middle East: French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, Lebanon, Merdjayoun
Accession Number 008197
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Parer, Damien Peter
Place made French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon: Lebanon, Merdjayoun
Date made 12 June 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

MERDJAYOUN. GENERAL LAVARACK INSPECTS THE GUARD OF HONOUR ON THE OCCASION OF THE (FIRST) HANDING OVER OF THE TOWN TO THE BRITISH AFTER THE RETREAT OF THE FRENCH FORCES. THE GUARD IN THIS INSTANCE IS COMPOSED OF MEN OF THE 31ST BATTALION WHO WERE AMONG THOSE WHO CAPTURED THE FORT. (NEGATIVE BY D. PARER).