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About the John Pendlebury Family Papers

The John Pendlebury Family Papers cover the period from 1913 to 1964 and document the life of archaeologist and WWII hero John Devitt Stringfellow Pendlebury, his wife Hilda and their family.

Photograph of “Nairn Car” at Ramadi [Ar-Ramādī], Iraq [PEN/2/2/5/59], Photograph of “Nairn Car” at Ramadi [Ar-Ramādī], Iraq, Thursday, February 23, 1933

This was John Pendlebury’s transport across the desert, run by the Nairn Transport Company. It was more like a small bus that a car.

Photograph of “Assyrian and Allenby’s stelae” at Dog River [Nahr el-Kalb], Lebanon [PEN/2/2/5/86], Photograph of “Assyrian and Allenby’s stelae” at Dog River [Nahr el-Kalb], Lebanon, Sunday, February 26, 1933

“Allenby’s” stele is a commemorative plaque to the Desert Mounted Corps (British, Australian, New Zealand and Indian Calvary), a French Regiment and Arab Forces of King Hussein (Oct 1918).