Orme Bigland Clarke (1880-1949) was born in India and after being educated in England, qualified as a lawyer. During the First World War he served in the British army in the Middle East and was chosen by Allenby to deal with the legal challenges that Allenby met when he conquered Palestine. Clarke is credited with establishing the pre-mandatory and mandatory judicial system in Palestine. Only in Palestine for a few months, Clarke caught malaria in November 1918 and after his recovery, he resigned from the army and returned to England. This collection comprises 36 letters written by Orme Clarke from Egypt and Palestine to his wife in England during 1918, the final year of World War One, while Clarke was still serving in the British army. The letters are arranged in chronological order and include subjects of a personal, family, professional and social nature. In almost all the letters Clarke writes how he misses his wife and his sons, who he hasn't seen for a long time. All the letters have their original envelopes attached with the stamp of the British censor. The Collection was deposited in The National Library by Clarke's descendants, thanks to the efforts of Dr. Nathan Brun (1937-2020), who investigated the judicial system in Palestine.
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שפה נוכחית