Help with wartime photo album please

I bought a very scruffy old photo album at an autojumble many years ago.

In it were 115 black and white photos, all on typically wartime sized paper, of British Forces in the Middle East.

The subjects covered include aircraft and aerodromes, Royal Navy ships, the Army, enemy p.o.w.s, cemeteries, aerial reconnaisance photos, battered towns, battlefield remnants, etc etc.

They all appear to be the work of official war photographers, i.e. there are none of the “Me, Taffy and Bert outside a brothel in Cairo” type shots. Some are marked Copyright, and most are numbered and annotated in pencil on the reverse.

I recognise one or two from those wartime H.M.S.O. publications that the British Public bought by the millions, e.g. The Royal Air Force In The Middle East, but the majority are new to me.

I have uploaded a few of the aircraft related ones and would appreciate your comments. Have you seen them published before?

Would anyone know how the original owner came to amass such a quantity? Were they perhaps sold to veterans of the campaign since unofficial photography would have been frowned on?

Any info/suggestions welcome.

Thanks in advance!