First World War Black and White Photograph of the Ghezireh Palace, Cairo
c. 1915Small black and white photograph of the Ghezireh Palace in Cairo. Photo shows the elaborately decorated arch entrance with a ambulance parked out the front. In the foreground on the left is a semi naked female statue and a large palm tree on the right.
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 "Entrance to Ghezireh Palace - / formerly 2nd Aust. Gen. Hosp.".
The photograph shows the Ghezireh Palace in Cairo at the time during the First World War, in June 1915 when it was requisitioned and served as the No. 2 Australian General Hospital. The Palace was originally built to host royal guests, and in 1894 it was sold and converted into a luxury hotel, known as Ghezireh Palace Hotel.
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