P00037.017 Accession Number: P00037.017

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Cairo, Egypt. 10 January 1916. A line of recuperating soldiers sit on a wall of the former Ghezireh Palace occupied by the 2nd Australian General Hospital (2AGH). The patients are waiting to see pass a convoy of horse drawn wagons of 20th Australian Army Supply Corps. The original caption reads `English tommies in the hospital at Gizereh. Something like five hundred of them are here. They are watching about fifty of our waggons going past while on our way to Maadi.'

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Accession Number
P00037.017
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film copy negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
10 January 1916
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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