First World War Black and White Photograph of No. 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital Tents & Heliopolis Palace, Cairo
c. 1915Small black and white photograph showing the canvas tents set up of the No.3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital in Cairo. The hospital located in the Heliopolis Sporting Club was used to treat convalescing soldiers from the Gallipoli campaign. The Heliopolis Palace Hotel is 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 "No 3 Auxiliary Hosp. / Officers quarters - with / Palace Hotel in the background".
This photograph shows 8 canvas tents set up in the grounds of the Heliopolis Sporting Club. As inscribed on the back of the photo, the tents were set up as officers quarters. As a result of the Gallipoli Campaign the sporting club was established as the No.3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, where convalescing soldiers from that campaign were treated. The Heliopolis Palace Hotel, which can be seen in the background, was transformed into the 1st Australian General Hospital.
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