The French Battleship Jaureguiberry at anchor where she acted as a guard ship from 1916 until ...

The French Battleship Jaureguiberry at anchor where she acted as a guard ship from 1916 until 1919. Her hull is painted a light grey, while the turrets are very dark grey or black. Note the extreme tumblehome of the hull, the dominant fighting tops and thick military masts common to French battleships completed in the 1890s. 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.