An unidentified farrier from the 2nd Field Artillery Brigade with his two pet monkeys at a camp ...

Accession Number C01521
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt: Cairo, Heliopolis
Date made October 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

An unidentified farrier from the 2nd Field Artillery Brigade with his two pet monkeys at a camp near Cairo. The gunners of the Brigade were serving on the Gallipoli Peninsula, but the drivers had returned to Egypt with the horses, which could not be used on the rugged Turkish terrain.

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