Item MM 92244 Photograph - Wounded Soldiers on Stretchers Outside General Hospital, Egypt, World War I, 1915-1916

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.

Description of Content

A soldier in shirtsleeves, legs apart, hands on hips, is chatting to a row of wounded soldiers lying on canvas and wood stretches. Behind the standing soldier are empty wooden wagon ambulances. They are outside the general hospital in Alexandria.