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Photograph J00444 First World War, 1914-1918Patients being loaded into a captured Turkish Red Crescent Hospital Train at El Kantara on the canal leaving for Cairo.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Patients being loaded into a captured Turkish Red Crescent Hospital Train at El Kantara on the canal leaving for Cairo.
Patients being loaded into a captured Turkish Red Crescent Hospital Train at El Kantara on the canal leaving for Cairo.

"Turkish amb. [ambulance] leaving us for Cairo." A Turkish Ambulance unit captured by the Australian Light Horse at Romani, lined up ready to go to Railhead en route for internment in Egypt. Note the

General Chauvel (second from right) talks with an unidentified officer prior to leaving Aleppo station, by train. Note the captured train carriage carries the red Turkish flag, the star and crescent,

A Turkish prisoner of war, wounded in the unsuccessful attack on the Suez Canal in early February 1915, being removed from a hospital train by Australian medical orderlies at Cairo.

Matron A M Sage and her nurses look after Bardia wounded at 2nd Australian General Hospital (AGH), El Kantara. Red Cross issue of comforts and magazines to patients; General Sir Thomas Blamey visits p
Portrait of Staff Nurse Elsie Grace Dobson (left) and Staff Nurse Helen Eliza Milne (right), Australian Army Nursing Service, who were attached to one of the hospital trains running between Heliopolis
