C01788 Accession Number: C01788

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Sick and walking wounded from the Gallipoli Peninsula travelling in an Egyptian Red Cross train from Alexandria to Cairo, where the hospitals were located. These trains had turbanned Hindu orderlies belonging to the Indian Army Medical Corps, and English nursing sisters; they carried plentiful refreshments.

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Accession Number
C01788
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
August 1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Lent by Lieutenant Jarvis
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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