First World War Black and White Photograph of Sports Meeting at No. 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Cairo
1916Small black and white photograph of sporting grounds of the Heliopolis Sporting Club where the No. 3 Australian Auxiliary was located. Two tents are on the left and a large gathering of soldiers standing and some on horse drawn carriages in the centre of oval area. A flag pole, flying the red cross flag is in the foreground and the Heliopolis Palace Hotel can be seen in the background.
This series of black & white photographs was collected by Private Eric Sydney BANNISTER, regimental number 19. He joined the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (ANMEF) on the 11th August 1914, just a week after war was declared on Germany. The mission of the ANMEF was to destroy German radio stations and occupy German New Guinea and surrounding areas. The ANMEF secured military occupation on the 13th September 1914. The photographs are from two areas of Australian military deployment during the First World War. Ten (10) are from a deployment to German colony of New Guinea in 1914 and another eighty (80) from Cairo dated 1915 and 1916.The photographs of his deployment are of national significance and show one of Australia’s first military action in the First World War.
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Handwritten in black ink on back "Sports meeting held at / No 3 Auxiliary Hosp. 1st Jan '16".
The photograph, dated the 1st January 1916 shows a sports meeting held by Australian soldiers on the grounds of the Heliopolis Sporting Club, where the No.3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital was located. The hospital was established in response to the large number of injured and sick soldiers returning from the Gallipoli campaign.
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