The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The facade of a fire damaged building in a quarter of Cairo known as the Haret el Wasser, but referred to by the soldiers as 'The Wasser'. In April 1915, aggrieved Australian and New Zealand soldiers had run amok, throwing bedding, mattresses and clothing from several brothels into the street and burning them. The British military police were summoned to an ugly scene, although most of those present were merely spectators; the police averted serious trouble by withdrawing. Members of the 2nd Australian Division were involved in the 'Second Battle of the Wozzer' in August 1915.
The facade of a fire damaged building in a quarter of Cairo known as the Haret el Wasser, but referred to by the soldiers as 'The Wozzer' or 'The Wassa'. In April 1915, aggrieved Australian and New Z
Unidentified soldiers and civilians strolling in Esbekiah Street in a quarter of Cairo known as the Haret el Wasser, but referred to by the soldiers as 'The Wozzer'. Not long before, aggrieved Austra
Unidentified soldiers and Egyptian civilians strolling in Esbekiah Street in a quarter of Cairo known as the Haret el Wasser, but referred to by the soldiers as 'The Wozzer'. Note the fire damage to
Egyptian men surveying damaged wagons and furniture in the street (probably following the riot at Haret El Wasser, a disreputable quarter of the city known to Australian troops as 'The Wozzer'.) On 2
Sign roughly made of sheet metal, probably taken from a biscuit tin, attached by two nails to a piece of timber which appears to have been part of a box. The metal has an overall patina of (inert) rus
CAIRO, EGYPT, 1915-04. BUILDINGS IN THE STREET OF HARET EL WASSER, KNOWN TO AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS AS THE WOZZER, DAMAGED IN AN INCIDENT INVOLVING AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND TROOPS 1915-04-02. (DONOR G.
