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Description: | Album containing black and white prints relating to F G Rathkey's service with 53rd (Welsh) Division Cyclist Company in Egypt and Palestine, 1915 - 1919. Photos record HM Transport ship LAKE MICHIGAN and the company's arrival in Alexandria (Sidi Bishr camp); training; leave; Port Said; Cairo Zoo; antiquities; the Enteric Hospital at Chubra, Cairo; cavalry units in action in Palestine; the 53rd Division entering Jerusalem; Turkish prisoners; positions before Third Battle of Gaza, including dugouts and bivouacs, field kitchens and burying the dead; Australian Light Horse going into action at Beersehba; caterpillar gun tractors on the Jaffa - Jerusalem road; Royal Engineers constructing a bridge; men of the Cyclist Company in reserve trenches by Solomon's Pools; RFC kite balloon; the 53rd Cyclists in camp at Mt Netmeh in the Judean Hills and local scenes in Ramallah. The album concludes with a small number of photographs taken at Kantara and Alexandria in 1918 - 1919, including men of the Cyclist Company guarding a working party of Turkish prisoners and a group photograph of the Company's rugby team. All prints have handwritten annotations in red pen. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Egypt Egypt and Palestine 1915-1918 Ottoman Empire British Army 1914-1918 British Army Cyclist Corps 53rd (Welsh) Division Palestine and Arabia 1914-1918 First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Rathkey F G (Mr) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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