First World War Photograph of the Delta Barrage Bridge Across the Nile River
c. 1915Small black and white photograph of the Delta Barrage Bridge across the Nile River, near Cairo. The bridge is a large stone arched structure with decorative cylindrical towers and was built to control floodwaters and help with crop irrigation.
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 "Bridge across Nile at / Barrage - ".
Construction of the Delta Barrage Bridge began in the 1830's, its purpose was to control the waterflow of the Nile River to assist with the irrigation system. Although shortly after completion leakages occurred affecting its irrigation control purpose. The structure was reinforced by British engineers in the 1880's and with the coming of the First World War saw the bridge as a critical transport route across the Nile River.
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