103. British armoured train at Romani

Records of the European War Collecting Project, established by the Trustees of the Mitchell Library in 1918

1a-b. Square of Mohomed Ali, Cairo
2. Opera Square, Cairo
3-4a-b. Cairo Railway Station
5. General view of Cairo
6. New Zealand Cemetery, Cairo
7a-b. Australian Section, Cairo Cemetery
8a-b. Australian Cemetery at Alexandria
9a-b. Grave of Trooper M.C.Melly, 7th Light Horse. Died of wounds and buried at El Kantara
10. Grave of Corporal Curran, D.C.M. at Romani
11a,b-12. Camp of 2nd Brigade at Romani
13. 2nd Brigade crossing Jordan River, 2/5/1918
14. 2nd Brigade in supports, Es Salt stunt
15. 2nd Brigade into entrance Es Salt (missing 1984)
16. Tired man & horse, Beersheba, 2nd Brigade
17. Grave of 2nd Brigade men, killed 2/5/1918, Es Salt stunt
18. Es Salt, 27th April
19. Tired man & horse. This man, Nicholls of Leichhardt, Sydney, was killed 2 hours after the photo was taken, by a bomb dropped from one of 17 Turkish aeroplanes, on 2nd May, Es Salt stunt
20. Barrage Bridge & flood gates, Nile
21-23. Kasrel Bridge, Nile
24. The Needle in Cairo. Supposed to be the spot at which Joseph and his brethren entered into the land of Egypt
25. De Lessep's Monument, Port Said
26. Sphinx and Pyramids
27a-b-c. Salhia Arab Festival. Every year the Arabs fast for 3 days & finish with this festival
28a-b. Arabic funeral. Women mourners make a fearful row
29-30. Koptic? Funeral 
31a-b. Bedouin women (`Bints' Arabic)
32. Bedouin women, Jordan Valley (missing 1984)
33. Bedouin at El Arish
34. Bedouin girl captured at Gaza (missing 1984)
35a-b. Palestine train arriving at El Kantara with wounded
36. Egyptian hospital train
37. Wounded bound for `Blighty'
38-39. Egyptian girl carrying dung firewood ;  3 Egyptian girls (missing 1984)
40. Egyptian girls carrying water
41. Egyptian lady
42. Egyptian girl in full dress. She could not sit down because of crinolins
43-44. Egyptian police
45. Principal Wasser Street, Cairo
46. The Wasser burnt
47. Sports at Ismailia
48. Winding water on canal, Ismailia
49. Ismailia sports
50. Ismailia Railway Station
51. Ismailia fresh water canal
52. Swinging bridge, Ismailia, across canal
53. Turkish prisoners working
54-56. Turkish prisoners
57. First prisoner captured on the desert at Bir El Abd. (missing 1984)
58-59. Cairo Zoo
60-61. Luna Park water shoot ;  Luna Park pavilion (missing 1984)
62. Jews Wailing Place, Jerusalem
63. Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem
64. Hill of Temptation
65. Cave in side of Hill of Temptation. Evidently an old burial place, we found a lot of human bones there
66. Altar in monastery, Hill of Temptation
67. Esbekieh Gardens, Cairo
68. Apostle Trees, Cairo
69. Luna Park water shoot
70. Luna Park pavilion
71. Bethlehem
72. Camp at Bethlehem
73a-b. Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem
74. Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem
75. View of Jerusalem
76. Swimming in the Jordan Valley
77. Swimming at El Arish
78. General Allenby & Duke of Cornwall
79. General Allenby in the parade
80. General Allenby & Duke of Cornwall at the salute
81. General Allenby entering Moascar
82. Duke of Cornwall at Moascar
83. Napoleon's Fort at Maadi
84. Naval men on the desert
85. Guns captured at Beersheba
86. Captured Turkish gear
87. Captured Turkish pontoons, Suez Canal, 29th Jan, 1915
88. Load of chaff. Note the size of donkey
89a-b. Operation on a camel for cancer. No chloroform is used, note the open mouth of the camel, which is roaring with pain. Camels appear to be particularly subject to animals diseases.
90. Wounded bound for `Blighty' (missing 1984)
91. Turkish prisoners
92a-b. Trumpeter Burgess aged 15. Youngest boy of the 7th Light Horse
93. Trumpeter Burgess in working clothes
94-95a,b. Trumpeter Smith
96. Trumpeter Mulready at Romani
97. Trooper Finnichie and his mates, 2nd Brigade, 6th Light Horse
98. Wounded bound for `Blighty' (missing 1984)
99. Reproduction of a picture from the London `Graphic'
100. Katai Well, Sinai Desert
101. Captured Turkish gear (missing 1984)
102. Cups to be raced for, Raafa Sports
103. British armoured train at Romani
104. Serapeum Camp, Sinai Desert
105. On the road to El Arish
106. Shepherd's Hotel, Cairo. Practically the headquarters of General Murray
107. Well at Gaza
108. Mahdi Camp (missing 1984)
109. Red Cross transports, El Arish
110. Watering horses at Ludd
111. Roman Catholic Church, Heliopolis

103. British armoured train at Romani

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