CAIRO, EGYPT 1940. FROM MAURICE SHELDON, NEWCASTLE WHO RETURNED TO ENGLAND AT OUTBREAK OF ...

Place Africa: Egypt, Cairo
Accession Number P00086.010
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

CAIRO, EGYPT 1940. FROM MAURICE SHELDON, NEWCASTLE WHO RETURNED TO ENGLAND AT OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES 1939 AND BECAME PADRE OF SECTION UNKNOWN. PRIOR TO GOING BACK TO ENGLAND WAS AT ST. JOHN'S CHURCH COOKS HILL, NEWCASTLE NSW. "THE TALL ONE WAS MY DRIVER-BATMAN. WE SOON MADE HIM INTO AN "EMERGENCY OFFICER AND TEMPORARY GENTLEMAN". (LEON CAIRO).