First World War Black and White Photograph of the Cairo Central Railway Station & Square
c. 1915First World War black and white photograph of the Cairo Central Railway Station, situated within Ramses Square. The station is a large brick building with a clock tower on the left. The park area in the foreground, has bench seats, gardens and local Egyptians can be seen walking around. A number of horse drawn carriages can be seen in front of the railway station.
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 "Cairo Central Railway Station / Square near Station".
The photograph shows the Cairo Central Railway Station, also known as the Ramses Railway Station, as it is situated in Ramses Square. The station opened in 1856 and was rebuilt in 1892, it was Egypt's central railway hub, named after one of the Egyptian Pharaohs and was the first rail link between Alexandria and Cairo.
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