Photographs relating to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bickerton Blackburn, Australian Army Medical Corps

Accession Number P08401.016
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt: Suez Canal, Port Said
Date made c 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A panorama made up of four exposures of Port Said and the Suez Canal from the wharf in front of the14th Australian General Hospital (14AGH). The harbour is filled with shipping, including some in camouflage. On the left the French battleship Jaureguiberry is moored with the distinctive domes of the Suez Canal Company headquarters beyond.

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