Summary

Photograph in an album created by Sergeant John Lord documenting his time in Egypt during World War I, late 1915 to mid 1916. The album was created in a lined notebook/diary type book and John Lord completely filled the album with photographs. All of the photographs are numbered and in pencil he has written captions around many of the photographs. A few of the early photographs are dated 1915. Many of the photographs depict camps, local people, street scenes, fellow soldiers at rest, horses, ambulances, hospitals and camels.

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A line of horse drawn field ambulances with red crosses on their sides are pulled up waiting at the Alexandria railway station. Each ambulance has four harnessed horses to carry the extra load of wounded soldiers. A man accompanied by his two boys take a look as they walk by.

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