Villagers in Egypt (or possibly Palestine) are engaged to lay wooden supports to assist the ...

Accession Number P08997.014
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Date made 1915-1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Villagers in Egypt (or possibly Palestine) are engaged to lay wooden supports to assist the movement of armoured vehicles across the desert. One of a series of photographs relating to an unknown Australian serviceman who undertook motorcycle duties with a signal squadron in Egypt and possibly Palestine during the First World War. The photographs were found in the wall cavity of a residential house in Byrnes Street, Botany, Sydney when it was demolished in the early 1970s.

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