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 team of horses are pulling a four wheel covered howitzer along a rock-lined road. A soldier rides on one of each pair of horses. The two horses nearest the carriage seems to be larger Shire horses. Soldiers walk behind the gun carriage in twos. In the near background are palm trees and in the distance is a large round tank which may have been used to hold water.

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