• Title
  1090 Sig. Corp. A. W. Edwards, 1st Light Horse Regt. in Palestine
• Creator
  A. W. Edwards
• Call number
  PXA 404
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1916-1917
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  69830
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  178 photographs - gelatin silver - 6.5 x 4 cm.-10.5 x 6.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. `The Douglas in his hall' - 1090 Sig. Corp. A. W. Edwards, 1st Light Horse Regt. at home in the Sinai Desert, Geisi Outpost, 21/11/16
  2. A.W.E. and Taffy - ready for the track ...
  3. 1st Light Horse Signallers in their hours of ease
  4. 1st Light Horse Signallers at work on Sinai Desert
  5-9. Taffy [horse] 16/11/16
  10. 1st Light Horse Signal troop at El Arish, 2/4/17
  11. 1st Regt. halted for lunch ... west of El Arish
  12. Sigs. of the 1st & 2nd L.H. Brigades at Zeitoun School. L-R: Corp. A. Edwards (1st Regt.), Sergt Wilson (2nd Regt.), Trpr Auld (7th Regt.), Cpl A. Cochrane (6th Regt.), Trpr Muir (7th Regt.), Cpl Kelly (5th Regt.)
  13. 1st L.H. Sigs. on one of the bridges at Barrage.
  14. A few of the `Knuts' leaving Zietoun school on leave
  15. Cairo Zoo
  16. Party of Sigs. in Barrage Gardens ...
  17. Donkey race. One of the heats of the Dinkum Donkey Derby run at Zietoun ...
  18. 1st prize Yeomanry section at the sports
  19. 2nd prize section
  20. Milkman doing his rounds in Cairo
  21. Egyptian farmer taking his cotton to market at Matahria near Zietoun ...
  22a,b. Jumping at Yeomanry Sports
  23. Sorting 1st Regt. parcel mail
  24. Shellal Crossing ...
  25. Water jump Yeomanry sports on the beach
  26. Turkish cavalryman taken prisoner near Beersheba ...
  27. Taffy
  28. Jack Upham & Jenny the pack mule ...
  29. `The Family' - Jenny, Austin & Taff
  30. Jenny [mule] shifting camp ...
  31. A novel `bivy' (bivouac)
  32. Yours truly & Taff on the beach ...
  33. Frenchmen in Khan Yunus
  34. French Colonials somewhere in Palestine. These chaps came from Algiers ...
  35. An Algerian camp among the sandhills near Khan Yunus
  36. Motor tractors travelling from Khan Yunus on the train ...
  37. Ruins of chapel built by the crusaders in Khan Yunus
  38. Native huts in Khan Yunus ...
  39. Native boy carrying water in Khan Yunus
  40. Native boy ploughing in Khan Yunus ...
  41-42. Indian Lancers at Khan Yunus
  43. Sig. Troop saddling laid out in readiness for inspection by General Chauvel ... near Khan Yunus
  44. Surfing near Khan Yunus
  45. Our section at dinner. L-R: Edwards, Wilson, MacNamara, Price ...
  46. Mine sweepers & store ships assembled off El Arish just before the first attack made on Gaza in April 1917
  47. This view was taken from the end of the Sig. troop lines at the seaside. The shelters were erected by the French Colonial troops who came down for the day
  48. 1st Regt. Sigs. burnishing bits, stirrup irons & spurs on the beach ...
  49. These chaps were tossing boys in a blanket ...
  50. Water works at Shellal crossing on the Wadi-el-Guzzeh showing Egyptian Labor Corps at work in the distance
  51. Shellal crossing on the Wadi-el-Guzzeh showing dam, pumping station, etc. recently erected by Royal Engineers. Signal Hill is in the distance ...
  52. Horses sheltering from artillery fire behind a pipe clay ridge near `Higgery Flat'
  53. Horses watering in Wade-el-Guzzeh ...
  54. ANZAC Mounted Division Rest Camp, looking towards Gaza. The Turks shelled the headland dimly seen in the distance with high explosives ... Kenny McKenzie was on the staff at this camp
  55. English Bridge, Cairo ...
  56. Two Arab boys on their donkey at El Arish ...
  57-61. El Arish
  62. 1st Brigade ...
  63. El Arish 9/2/17
  64. Sikhs bathing
  65. El Arish 8/1/17
  66. An oasis at El Arish. An Australian is carrying two canvas buckets of water hanging to his toes while mounted ...
  67. Arab police at El Arish
  68. `Tea on the lawn' - `Discussing the lastest phurphies'
  69. Turkish prisoners from Rafa in the compound at El Arish ...
  70. Glimpse of the Nile from Kasr-El-Nil bridge, Cairo
  71. Clipping horses on the beach near Raffa ...
  72. Aeroplane dropping message on Sig. Station at El-Burj, 10 miles east of El Arish ...
  73. Red Cross train at Bir-el-Abd on the trans-Sinai railway
  74. Truck load of tibben [chaff] on fire at Bir-el-Abd ...
  75. Battery of 18 pounders dug in to the banks of the Wadi-El-Ghuzzeh ...
  76. A Bristol Bullet. This is one of the most up to date planes on this front ...
  77. B Squadron lines at Gambi
  78. Football match at Gambi. Leicester Battery Royal Horse Artillery v 1st A.L.H. Reg. We won
  79. Reserve troops wireless plant and Field Ambulance on a stunt near Beersheba
  80. Berkshire Battery Royal Horse Artillery near Gabi redoubts, right flank Palestine Front
  81. Berkshire Battery Royal Horse Artillery registering ...
  82. 1st Regt. Sig. Troop with hostile aircraft overhead ...
  83. ... photo of a helio flash ...
  84. Spoils of war 25/12/16. Rifles, equipment, ammunition ...
  85. Turkish prisoners 18/1/17. Two Turks ...
  86. Enemy officers and German machine gunners captured at Rafa ...
  87. Turkish Mountain Battery captured at Maghdaba
  88. Turkish prisoners at Beersheba, 1/11/17. The small group standing on the right ... are officers, mostly German and cavalry officers
  89. Turkish prisoners from Rafa at El Arish ...
  90. Prisoners El Arish, 12/1/17
  91. Sultan's yacht on the Nile at Barrage Gardens
  92. One of the bridges and regulators at Barrage Gardens
  93. Pontoon bridge over Suez Canal at Kantara ...
  
  94. Kars-el-Nil Bridge, Cairo
  95. The Nile from the bridge
  96. Bread about to be issued to the 1st L. H. Sigs. ...
  97. Turkish Hospital in Beersheba, 1/11/17 ... All Australians killed in the vicinity of Beersheba are now buried among these trees
  98. Beersheba Railway Station, 1/11/17 ...
  99. Turkish burial party in Beersheba, 1/11/17 ...
  100. Beersheba
  101. Turkish field gun
  102-103. 1st Light Horse
  104-113. [untitled scenes]
  114. Party from Palestine Desert Corps entraining at Kantara West for the Rest Camp, Port Said ...
  115. Italian conscripts in training at Port Said. Buildings are bathing shacks ...
  116. Yours truly & Taff about to move camp
  117. Italian N.C.O. at Port Said
  118. Wine cellars, Ras Duran
  119. Shower baths for the men, Ras Duran wine cellars
  120. Street scene, Ras Duran. Typical workman's cottage ...
  121. View showing portion of Ras Duran ...
  122. Our camp at Ras Duran
  123. 1st A.L.A. Bge. on trek among the hills ... Jaffa to Jerusalem ...
  124. A mob of cattle with part of the 1st A.L.A. Regt. in the background near Jaffa ...
  125. Turkish train running on captured line ...
  126. Preparing for the next big push at our little wooden cross factory. These crosses are made by the carpenters in our engineering field troop
  127. Grave of 25 New Zealanders near Jaffa
  128. 7th Mounted Bdg. Supply Section ...
  129. Painting inside the dome over the altar in the monastery on the Mount of Temptation ...
  130. Monks and an Australian in the monastery on the Mount of Temptation
  131. Lead horses belong to A.L.H. ... outside the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem ...
  132. View showing the Belfrey of Monastery ... Mount of Temptation ...
  133. Mount of Temptation ...
  134. Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem ...
  135. View taken near Bethlehem
  136. Joran near Jericho
  137. Jordan ...
  138. Jordan River near Jericho
  139. Partridge nest ...
  140. Bedouins bringing their flocks to our lines in the Jordan Valley
  141. Armoured motor car in Jordan Valley
  142. Indian infantry camped near us in the Jordan Valley
  143. Pontoon Bridge over Jordan ...
  144. Shows passing through the English Bridge, Cairo
  145. Shows loaded with building stone passing through English Bridge
  146. Looking downstream from English Bridge
  147. Swimming horses in the Jordan ...
  148. Watering and swimming horses in the Jordan
  149. Jordan River showing portion of our camp
  150. 1st L.H. Regt. Sig. Troop crossing Jordan ...
  151. Battery of 4.5 howitzers shelling, Pear Hill, about 9 miles North of Jerusalem ...
  152. A few of the Knuts at the 31st B. G. H. ...
  153. ... this photo gives a good idea of what the wheat crops were like at El-Salt ...
  154. Turkish prisoners engaged on agricultural work in Cairo ... photographing prisoners is forbidden
  155. Turkish and German prisoners taken near Es-Salt ...
  156-178. [untitled]
  
  Accompanied by annotated index cards.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  A bibliography of servicemen's and women's diaries of World War I is held in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at PXn 878
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1014704
• Name
  Australia. Army. Light Horse Regiment, 1st
  Australia. Army. Light Horse Regiment, 2nd
  Australia. Army. Light Horse Regiment, 6th
  Australia. Army. Light Horse Regiment, 7th
  Middle East Campaign (1914-1918)
  Red Cross
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  aeroplanes
  Arabic people
  army camps
  artillery
  Bedouins
  bread
  bridges
  campaigns & battles
  cavalries
  charitable organisations
  Egyptians
  funeral processions
  Germans
  graves
  historic sites
  horses
  hospitals
  huts
  Indians
  Italians
  mailbags
  mules
  New Zealanders
  police
  prisoners of war
  railway stations
  ruins
  ships
  soldiers
  sports
  trains
  Turks
  war damage
  
• Place
  Palestine
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Life Interrupted: Personal Diaries from World War I - State Library of New South Wales (5 July - 21 September, 2014)
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