First World War Black and White Photograph of the Boulac Bridge, Cairo
c. 1915Small black and white photograph of the Boulac Bridge in Cairo, showing the large steel truss structure of the bridge. In the foreground are 2 persons riding donkey's, one being white in colour and the other darker. Some pedestrians can be seen walking across the bridge, in the background, and tram lines on the left. The photo is slightly blurred.
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 "Boulac Bridge - Cairo -".
The photograph is of the Boulac Bridge in Cairo, the steel truss bridge structure was built between 1908-1912 and connected Cairo to Gezira Island, crossing the Nile river. The bridge measured 274.5 meters in length and 20 meters in width and was demolished in 1998.
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