PORT SAID, EGYPT, 1917-01. MEAL QUEUES OF RUSSIAN SAILORS AT THE BRITISH 31ST GENERAL HOSPITAL. ...

Place Africa: Egypt, Suez Canal, Port Said
Accession Number H02571
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Date made January 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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PORT SAID, EGYPT, 1917-01. MEAL QUEUES OF RUSSIAN SAILORS AT THE BRITISH 31ST GENERAL HOSPITAL. APPROXIMATELY 700 SAILORS WERE RESCUED WHEN THEIR SHIP, THE RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP PERESVIET, WAS MINED OFF PORT SAID ON 1917-01-04.