• Title
  With the Australian Light Horse in Egypt and Sinai 1916-1917 / photos by R.F. Ingham, 1st L.H.F. Ambulance
• Creator
  R. F. Ingham
• Call number
  PXE 696 (v.1)
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1916-1917
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  69832
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (96 photographs) - 20 x 28 cm. - gelatin silver
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Camel train in the Sinai Desert - The sandy desert, Sinai - Egyptian Camel Transport - Camel lines of the Camel Transport Corps
  2. Dr Geach attending to a wounded camel - A short halt at El Abd. - Light Horse Camp in a desert oasis - A desert patrol resting their horses
  3. Ambulance sand cart used in Sinai - `Cachalay' stretches for carrying wounded on camels - Cachalays rigged each side of a camel - A lonely post in the desert
  4. A Bedouin home, Sinai - An Australian's home, Sinai - Our cooks, Beni Sela - Light Horse encamped in Sawarka Oasis
  5. A captured Turkish mascot - Bedouin girls - Returning from the well, Khan Yunis - Turkish mascots captured by the A.L.H. at Rafa
  6. Suelima Clearing Station near Gaza - A block house to protect communications - A flag the Turks respected but little - The Clearing Station at Beni Sela
  7. A temporary shelter from the sun - Tractor transport used in Sinai - Light Horsemen's dug outs near the Wadi Gaza - Polling day near Gaza, 1917
  8. The lone tree, Khan Yunis - A Bedouin village, Beni Sela - French Infantrymen at Khan Yunis - Bedouins bargaining with a Frenchman
  9. The Wadi Guzzeh near Gaza - Men who fell at Gaza Palestine - The crusaders House of Prayer at Khan Yunis - A Bedouin harvest at Khan Yunis
  10. Bedouin Flocks, Khan Yunis - Water melon patches at Khan Yunis - Bedouin women at the well, El Arish - The Bedouin's donkey
  11. A Bedouin backyard - The corner of a Bedouin village - Chaff cutting, El Arish - Date palms at El Arish
  12. The sea beach at Belah - Swimming the horses at Belah - Horse clipping at Belah - Advanced Dressing Station, Tel El Jemmi
  13. 1st Light Horse headquarters at El Arish - Bengal Lancers, Masaid - Indian Ammunition Column, El Arish - Indian Machine Gunners at Rafa
  14. Part of the 1st Light Horse Brigade at El Arish - Exercising the horses at El Arish - A Sheiks Tomb at El Arish - Our dug out, Beni Sela
  15. Ayrshire Battery, Scotch Artillery, Beni Sela - Home sweet home, El Arish - El Arish, 3 months after the British Occupation - Hospital train full of wounded from Gaza passing El Arish
  16. Australian Baggage Guard, Sinai - The armoured train which did good work at Romani - A tune on the Y.M.C.A. piano, Sinai - Baggage Guard waiting for the train
  17. A Turkisk mine washed ashore, El Arish - Explosion of the mine two days later - A sunken mine sweeper at El Arish - Landing stores for troops at El Arish
  18. Our precious fluid carrier at Rafa - A precious spring in the Sinai Desert - One of the first anti aircraft guns on the Palestine Front - A battery of guns concealed from hostile aeroplanes by netting, El Arish
  19. Tug-of-war competition at Masaid - Wrestling on horse track at Masaid - The champion sprinter of the Brigade - Football at Masaid
  20. A Felucca on the Suez Canal, Kantara - The Suez Canal hospital ship `Niagara' - The military pontoon bridge across the Suez Canal at Kantara - A hospital launch on the Suez Canal
  21. 7 days leave in Cairo - The ANZAC Hostel, Cairo - The Wazza fire, Cairo. This dirty quarter was burnt down by the Australians - Unfathomable signs in Cairo
  22. A Greek funeral in Cairo - E? Gardens in Cairo - The Grotto, Cairo Zoo - The hippopotamus, Cairo Zoo
  23. A Greek altar, Cairo - A canal near the Gizeh pyramids - The Sphinx at Memphis - Statue of Rameses, Memphis
  24. A mosque at Abbassia - The Twelve Apostles, Esbekieh - A Mosque in Cairo - Feluccas on the River Nile
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  A bibliography of servicemen's and women's diaries of World War I is held in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at PXn 878
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1027162
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  All photoprints are titled
• Name
  Australia. Army. Australian Light Horse
  Middle East Campaign (1914-1918)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  children
  Photograph albums.
  
• Topic
  artillery
  Bedouins
  camels
  campaigns & battles
  cavalries
  cooks
  dressing stations
  French people
  funerals
  graves
  hospital ships
  hospital trains
  Indians
  pianos
  soldiers
  sports
  streetscapes
  stretchers
  trains
  trench warfare
  
• Place
  Egypt
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1526519

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