First World War Photograph of Egyptian Males with Donkeys Loaded with Hay
c. 1915Black and white photograph of two (2) male Egyptian's, (a man & teenage boy) with 2 donkeys loaded up with hay, on a street in Cairo. They are dressed in traditional attire of Galabeyas and turban, and standing in front of a large stone building with a metal arch top above a wooden doorway.
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 "Donkeys loaded with hay - / Cairo".
The photograph shows two (2) Egyptian males, dressed in traditional dress of the Galabeyas (long dress like garment) and turban head dress. They each have control of a donkey laden with agricultural produce.
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