• Reference
    Z1082/3
  • Title
    Photograph album with written captions. Chiefly from a walking holiday in the Alps, Switzerland but also includes photographs from a city break in Paris and while Geoffrey Nichol was commissioned in South Africa, Asia and Greece during the Second World War. Including: - Scenic photographs of the following towns, cities and mountain ranges in Switzerland: Gasterntal, Sierre, Chateau, Rhone Valley, Stalden in Saastal, Val D'anniviers, Saas-Fee, Alphubel, Taeschorn, Dom, Allalinhorn, Lange Fluh, Lenzspitze, Mischabel, Laquinhorn, Wildi, Fletschorn, Bietshorn, Portjengrat, Gletscheralp, Plattjenkopk, Simplon, Hohe Stiege Chapel, Gando Ravine, Brigue, Simpon, Collegium, Schloss Stockalper, Kanderstag; Gemmi, Allmenbach, Blumisalp, Kandersteg, Gemmi, Leukerbad, Valais Alps and Daubensee. - Photographs of the following tourist sites in Paris; the Seine, Garden of Tuilleries, Champ Elysees, Arc de Triomphe, a view from Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. - Other photographs in France include those taken in Brigue, Melun and of the Simplon Orient Express. - Durban including three soldiers walking in June 1942, (Nicholls, Cocks and Gregory), Clarewood Camp, Izipingo Beach and Marienburg Trappist Monastry. - Bombay in 1942 including the R.A. Mess, Colaba and the mess bungalows. - Benghazi, Libya in 1942/43 including photographs of Apollonia and fellow soldiers including T.A. Hughes, S.S. Jenny Moller, Hinchcliffe, Peebles and a collective photograph of The Pirates Rugby Union Football Club. - Palestine in 1943 including The Wailing Wall, Damascus Gate and Gethsemane. - Greece in 1945 including photographs of various soldiers in uniform, Simi, Panormiti and H.M.S. Crete.
  • Date free text
    c.1935 - 1945
  • Production date
    From: 1935 To: 1945
  • Level of description
    item