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No Binding. Zustand: Good. Black and red printed map with text to verso 36 x 27cm. The map was reproduced and printed by the Survey of Palestine, September 1944, for the Town Major, Middle East Forces. The text is credited to the Town Major's Office in the German Colony. Good, quite neatly folded, tanned, with small hole at intersection, a couple of short closed tears, and small black crosses at a couple of locations including the King David Hotel. The map shows Jerusalem bounded by the Old City (NE), Syrian Orphanage (NW), and Allenby Barracks (S). Main features include hotels, cafes, military establishments, clubs, hospitals, Medical Inspection (M.I.) Room, etc. The perimeter of the Old City is shaded in red, with the note "Old City out of bounds dusk till dawn", and all other establishments are "in bounds except when displaying out of bounds notice". The verso gives the Town Major's contact details, and lists "Do's and Don'ts while on leave", covering reporting in; arms and ammunition; accommodation; valuables; Jerusalem Services Club; EFI facilities; M.I. Room; bounds, prices, photographs; parcels etc; with a warning about contracting venereal disease.

1p., 8vo. A mimeographed document duplicating fifty lines of handwriting (that of Ferrar himself?). Embossed government crest at top left. A scarce survival, on aged and heavily-worn paper, with closed tears and slight loss to extremities, repaired with archival tape. Text in eleven sections: 'Duties' ('Field Officer of the day', 'Captain of the day', 'Orderly of the day'), 'Remission of sentence', 'Punishments', 'Strength', 'Furloughs', 'Institutes', 'Correspondence etc', 'Deaths', 'C M Prisoners', 'Courts Martial', 'Divine Service' (parade times for Roman Catholics, Presbyterians and Wesleyans'). The longest section, on 'Courts Martial', gives an impression of the tone: 'No 3222 Pte H Parsons 8 Dorsets was tried by D C M 14th August & sentenced to be imprisoned with Hard Labour for 56 days for Receiving stolen goods knowing them to be stolen No 4058 Pte F Armstrong 2 Dorestes was tried by D C M 14th inst & sentenced to be imprisoned with Hard Labour for 6 Calendar Months for "Committing a civil offence that is to say stealing." Captain Pinwell Liverpools is appointed a member of a D C M ordered to assemble at Wynburg at 10-0 AM on Monday 18th. inst.' The two British prisoner of war camps on the Green Point Common the Green Point Track Camp and the Sky View Camp were established during the war to relieve severe overcrowding at the Simon's Town camp. With the end of the war the role of the camp changed to accommodate POWs being sent to the various districts in the former republics rather than overseas. Gradually the number of POWs were being sent from overseas camps to South Africa fell, and the Green Point camp was closed.

Publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. Quarto 10½'' x 8¼''. Contains 33 printed pages of text. Light soiling to the covers and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Separately enclosed are two 1956 10'' x 8'' typed pamphlets by the Borough Librarian, H. Cross. The first is an 18 page document titled 'Kingston-upon-Thames', the second consisting of 9 pages is titled 'The Kingston Coronation Stone' and is SIGNED by H. Cross. Member of the P.B.F.A. SURREY (Suthrige).