First World War Photograph Showing Captured Pontoons at the Giza Zoo, Cairo
1915Black and white photograph showing two (2) pontoon vessels behind a fenced enclosure in the Giza Zoological Garden, Cairo.
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 "Pontoons in Zoo' gardens - / captured by Australians from / the Turks on the Canal in Feb 1915".
This photograph shows two (2) pontoon vessels displayed at the Giza Zoological Garden, Cairo, that had been captured from the Turk's by Australian soldiers. The pontoons were used by the 4th Turkish Army in their attempt to cross the Suez Canal on the 3rd February 1915.
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