Jane M. Barrett contributed
these photos taken by her father, Leonard Sidney Frank Walter, when he served in the Middle East Pigeon Service. His album is from 1939 when he was called up to the Militia
just after his 21st birthday until about 1944. Most of it is from 1942 onwards
when he was sent to Egypt first as a lieutenant and then a captain but
there is a bit in the central pigeon service in Edinburgh in 1941-2. He served
in Egypt, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq.
This
picture below is of a corridor in a loft at Aqir. The pigeon is the first one
released from an aircraft around 1942-3.
LSF
Walter in Egypt 1942
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