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Zeitoun Training Base Egypt |
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| Egypt
and the Suez Canal: This map shows
how the troops defending the Suez Canal could have been quickly reinforced
from the training camps near Cairo. |
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Zeitoun,
Cairo, Egypt, 1915.
Walter Fisher and others of
3rdAuckland Regiment. "Dear Herb, Lena and Joyce. Just a
photo of my tent-mates. Notice my identity disk and Father's knife with
which I hope to slice a few German sausages. Best Love and XX from
Wallie Fisher".
Written 1915-04-07. AWM
image & text. (Donor J.Wright) |
| Zeitoun,
Egypt, c.1915. Camp fires and
kitchen at Zeitoun near Cairo. (Donor W.M. Godbehear).
AWM image & text |
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A
party of Australian Army Medical Corps reinforcements at Zietoun in
1915-12, awaiting orders to move off for Lemnos. Standing, from left to
right; Ptes. R. Houghton, W.E. Stockdale, H.V. Telfer, H. Stinton, W. W.
Meiklejohn,- J.P. McIntyre,-. Sitting; Ptes. W. Percival H. Gibson, W.
Sykes, F. Lapsley and G.B.G. Maitland.
(donated by Pte. M.E. McCarthy, 2nd Aust. Stationary Hospital.) |
| Zeitoun,
Egypt, 1916. 7601 Francis Albert Corbett of
the 1st Motor Transport Company driving a Field Ambulance referred to as
a "Chinese Rolls Royce". (Donor: Mrs. M. Howe) |
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Zeitoun,
Egypt. c. 1916.
A line of sleeping huts at
an AIF training camp. (Donor Mrs C. Chapman) AWM image. |
| The
Officers' Mess at the Zeitoun School of Instruction. The officers' class
consisted of the subalterns of the 6th Infantry Brigade. Note the pot
plants along the pathway. |
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