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Sir Archibald Murray's Despatches: 4 Hand Colered Litho Maps, includ. Map: Syria, Jerusalem and Rafa, 1920 - Sir Archibald Murray's Despatches: 4 Hand Colered Litho Maps, includ. Map: Syria, Jerusalem and Rafa, 1920 Published by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, London, 1920 Closed size of all maps is approximately: 17 x 25 cm. (6.5 x 10 inches). 4 large folding maps on linen-backed paper, Map volume only. Inscription on spine of folder: Sir Archibald Murray's Despatches. Maps Maps prepared by the U.K. War Office, General Staff, Geographical Section. Map 1 is an outline lithographed map of the Turkish Empire, 1917 with additions August 1917, scale 1: 10, 000, 000, measuring: 20 x 22.75 inches ( 51 x 57.8 cm.) Map 2 is a hand colored lithographed map of Egypt, with insert maps of Cairo and Alexandria, 1905 with additions June 1917, scale 1: 2, 000, 000, measuring: 32.5 x 26 inches. (82.5 x 66 cm.) Map 3 is a hand colored lithographed contour map of the Sinai Peninsula, Suez-Port Said, 1920, scale 1: 250, 000, measuring: 28.5 x 37 inches (72.3 x 94 cm.) Map 4 is a hand color lithographed contour map of Syria including Jerusalem and Rafa, with an insert map of Gaza-Shellal, July 1920, scale 1: 250, 000, measuring: 28.75 x 33.75 inches. (73 x 85.7 cm.) Condition: wear, tears, worm holes to folder; foxing and discoloring stains to reverse side of maps; worm holes to all maps: some wormed more some less Weight: 470 gr. General Sir Archibald James Murray, GCB, GCMG, CVO, DSO (23 April 1860 – 21 January 1945) was a British Army officer who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. He was chief of staff to the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in August 1914 but appears to have suffered a physical breakdown in the retreat from Mons, and was required to step down from that position in January 1915. After serving as Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff for much of 1915, he was briefly Chief of the Imperial General Staff from September to December 1915. He was subsequently Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from January 1916 to June 1917, in which role he laid the military foundation for the defeat and destruction of the Ottoman Empire in the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant.