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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