Abdelhamid Hamid Hamdy (1905-1979) Egyptian industrialist, and Zakeyiah Abdel Gawad (1920 - 2008): photographs and papers of Hamdy and his wife Zakia Abdel Hamid, mainly rel to Egypt 1930s-1950s (GB165-0770)
Sir Ernest MacLeod Dowson (1876-1950) Knight, colonial administrator and expert on land registration: commonplace book, with the opening inscription ‘13 Dec 1908 Tents Giza – Egypt’, covering a wide variety of subjects, and incl pressed plants from Cape Helles 1915, quotations and extracts from books, poetry and famous figures, as well as newspaper clippings 1908-1956 (GB165-0092)
Edward Molesworth Sykes (1910-1992), accountant, SOE agent: additional photographs and loose prints, photograph album with images of the construction work of the Trans-Iranian railway from Abadan to Tehran in the late 1930s c1930-1944 (GB165-0344)
John Bernard Barron (1886-1981): First World War scrapbook and papers rel to his life and work in Palestine and Egypt 1915-1940s c1859-1940 (GB165-0766)
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