First World War Black and White Photograph of a Group of Egyptian Recruits at Training
c. 1915Small black and white photograph of a group of Egyptian recruits during a training drill. Behind them is a tree lined wall and a number of tents pitched to the right of the photo.
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 "Egyptian recruits at drill - / Gizeh - / near Cairo/".
This photograph shows local Egyptians during a training drill at a camp near Gizeh. During the First World War thousands of local fellahin (farmers) were conscripted by the British Army into the Egyptian Labour Corps, (ELC). By 1918, the numbers neared half a million, they were primarily tasked in logistics, heavy labour and construction work to assist the Allied war effort across Egypt, the Sinai, and Palestine.
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