(Korean War, Royal Engineers.) A 1950's Crocodile skin photo...

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£300 - £400

(Korean War, Royal Engineers.) A 1950's Crocodile skin photograph album containing approx. 220 snapshot photographs of Royal Engineers 1952-1954, mainly in Korea, also in Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo, the photographs well taken and loosely corner mounted, the album carefully laid out and well presented with neat manuscript captions to leaves of album throughout by the compiler, images include approx. 5 images of Royal Engineers 1952 in UK including "317 Party. 3 Training Regiment Royal Engineers. Morval Barracks, Cove, Hants.", 33 images in section captioned "Outward Bound. Departed Liverpool April 9th 1953", of Egypt, Aden, Colombo, Singapore and Hong Kong, 24 of these images Hong Kong and Singapore, including street scenes, view of hong Kong and peak from Kowloon River, Kowloon, cable car to the peak, views taken from the peak, looking over strait to Kowloon on Chinese mainland, etc; followed by section of 93 images of Royal Engineers in Korean peninsula 1953-54, including Imjin Valley, "Looking along the Imjon River to Teal Bridge, Samichon Valley & Chinese Occupied N. Korea", various bridges river Imjin and Samichon including Harlequin bridge, pintail bridge, two views of Teal bridge looking north, "Winter 1953 on Teal Bridge", various views Teal bridge area and photos of Royal Engineers including bathing in the Imjin, various photos captioned "Commonwealth Division Rest Center, Inchon, February 1954", various views Inchon including bay, lagoon, Korean temple exterior and interior, paddy fields, hillside, "Children playing at a traditional Korean game", various British soldiers posing "Summit of Kamak-San, Aug. '53", various others Royal Engineers posing, several images captioned "Bridging Camp on the River Imjin May 1954" and "Construction of Causeway into Regiment", "Korean store at the Tok-Chon railhead and M.S.R. Junction", "Store in the burnt out village of Sinsani", "Village of Nam-Yen", "Korean Hoochie", hillside village, village on top of Kamak-San, views of village of Sagimak, Gloster valley, castle hill, various brigade sports, graves Chinese soldiers, 28 Field Engineer Regiment, quarry etc; followed by section of 19 images "R & R Leave Tokyo Nov. 1953", including Ginza street, Ginza at night, Ebisu, Piccadilly Theatre junction Ave. Z and 5th Street, various panorama views of Tokyo, Kimpo airfield including aircraft in which Royal Engineers returned to Korea; followed by section of 20 more photographs Korea, including Koreans working in paddy fields, children at play, "Korean Mama-Sans", "Washee Washee woman", "Chop - Chop", "Papa-San near Toch-Chon", "Honey buckets for the paddy", Seoul including South gate, "R.CA.S.C. G.M. coming into Seoul", railway station, blown bridge over the River Han, etc; followed by section of 21 photographs various views of Kure, Japan; followed by section of 12 photographs of Hong Kong 1954, including views of Victoria and Kowloon across the Strait, street scenes, a Sampan on the strait, customs house Kowloon, traders in Sampan, H.T. Lancashire in Kowloon, etc; followed by 8 images Singapore 1954 including Raffles Hotel, shopping centre, cathedral, civic hall, suspension bridge over Singapore River, Singapore waterfront, sailing out; followed by seven images Colombo, Aden, Suez, Gibraltar, all leaves of album with tissue guards, images various size, approx. 6 x 6cm to 11 x 11cm, mainly 8 x 11cm, crocodile skin album, approx. 33 x 38cm, together with a copy of 'British Forces in the Korean War', edited Ashley Cunninghame-Boothe and Peter Farrar, pub. The British Korean Veterans Association, 1988, 1st edition, 1st impression, xiii,200pp, b/w illustrations from photographs throughout, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, some relevant ephemera loosely inserted, including 1950's folding map of Munsan, Korea, printed in red "Restricted Security Information", 1 Yen bank note signed by some British servicemen Korea 1954, some later newspaper cuttings re Korean war etc (2)