Item MM 92272 Photograph - Motor Ambulances & Troop Carrier Asturias, Alexandria, Egypt, circa 1915

Summary

Photograph of a line of covered motorized ambulances pulled up alongside the troop carrier Asturias at the wharf at Alexandria, Egypt, during World War I.

From a photograph album created by Sergeant John Lord and documents his time in Egypt. 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 line of covered motorized ambulances, their rear ends open, are pulled up alongside the troop carrier Asturias at the wharf at Alexandria. Each ambulance has painted on its side a large cross painted on a white circle. On the right is a carriage pulled by two horses which have fringes over their foreheads to keep flies at bay.

Physical Description

Black and white photograph.