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Portfolio - EGYPT. 1956. Suez War. 

David Seymour 

On the 29th October the Israeli armed forces invaded the Sinaï. British and French troops seized the Suez canal which had been nationalised on the 26th July 1956 by President Nasser of Egypt. On the 5th November 1956 Franco British attack on Port Said. A cease fire was declared on the 7th November 1956. 

David Seymour 1956

French parachute members at the El Gamil airfield after landing... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. The El Gamil airfield where French paratroopers landed... 

David Seymour 1956

Wounded in the Egyptian General Hospital, Port Said. 

David Seymour 1956

Wounded in the Egyptian General Hospital in Port Said. 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Wounded in the Egyptian General Hospital, in Port Said.... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. October 29th, 1956. A woman in the ruins of Port Said... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. The wreckage in the streets of Port Said after the Franco... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. A woman in the ruins of Port Said after its destruction... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Refugees waiting for evacuation on the ferryboat from... 

David Seymour 1956

Port Fuad, a French flag spread out on a street to indicate to... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Port Said. October 1956. Young boy fleeing from advancing... 

David Seymour 1956

Children scraping up baking flour from a depot that had been... 

David Seymour 1956

Children join in the pillaging of flour when a mob attacked a... 

David Seymour 1956

Children scraping up flour in a mobbed flour depot in Port Said.... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. British soldiers entering the city of Port Said. 1956.... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Port Said. British soldiers trying to maintain order among... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Port Said. British soldier standing guard at a looted... 

David Seymour 1956

French paratroopers waiting to take off from El Gamil aiport... 

David Seymour 1956

The El Gamil airfield littered with parachutes and containers... 

David Seymour 1956

El Gamil airfield littered with parachutes after French landings.... 

David Seymour 1956

El Gamil airfield, Egyptian prisoners of war being held in a... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Port Said. French soldiers. November 7-8th, 1956. 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Port Said. 1956. 

David Seymour 1956

People waiting behind British soldiers in the streets of Port... 

David Seymour 1956

Crowds looted a truckload of fish, which was then shared among... 

David Seymour 1956

A truck of fish being mobbed by people in Port Said. 

David Seymour 1956

Hungry crowds attacking a truckload of fish, Port Said. 

David Seymour 1956

Hungry crowds raiding a truck load of fish, Port Said. 

David Seymour 1956

Egyptians mob a truckload of fish in Port Said. 

David Seymour 1956

Hungry crowds mobbing a truckloack of fish, Port Said. 

David Seymour 1956

People saving scraps of belongings after the bombing raid of... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Inhabitants in the wreckage of Port Said after the Franco... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. An elderly man looking at the wreckage after the Franco... 

David Seymour 1956

Wounded in the Egyptian General Hospital, in Port Said. 

David Seymour 1956

Wounded in the Egyptian General Hospital in Port Said. 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Ruins in the streets of Port Said after the attack by... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Ruins and flooding from pipe bursts during the bombing... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Port Said. 1956. During the Suez War. 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Port Said in ruins after the Franco-British air attack.... 

David Seymour 1956

The French military headquarters installed in the Civil Governor's... 

David Seymour 1956

The French military headquarters in a captured Civil Governor's... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. French soldiers in Port-Saïd during the Suez War. November... 

David Seymour 1956

EGYPT. Port Said. Hungry crowds attacking a truck with fish.... 

David Seymour 1956

British RAF personnel at the Nicosia base in Cyprus, rejoicing... 

David Seymour 1956

British Major General KEIGHTLEY, the Commander of the Combined... 

David Seymour 1956

Major General KEIGHTLEY, The British Commander of the Franco... 

David Seymour 1956

Nicosia, Cyprus.British RAF aircrew giving a briefing after... 

David Seymour 1956

Nicosia, Cyprus. British RAF pilot giving a briefing after his... 
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