Summary

Photograph of the hospital ship HMAS Assaye 'Unloading and Loading Convalescents Alexandria'. Part of a collection of objects relating to, or brought back from, Europe and the Middle East after World War I, belonging to Sergeant John Lord, service # 6252, 13th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. On 4 November 1915 Lord joined the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) on the HMAS 'Assaye' on a voyage from Alexandria to Gallipoli. He was stationed at Lemnos Island rather than on Gallipoli itself.

Part of a photograph album containing 474 photographs taken during World War I in Egypt. It was created by Sergeant John Lord in a lined notebook/diary type book. 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 stretcher with two bearers is carried up the gangway in the left midground to the hospital ship 'Assaye'. On the end of the gangplank stands a single soldier, to the left, a group of Australian soldiers and infront lie four patients on stretchers and a single, standing soldier. In the right foreground, staff remove a patient on a stretcher from an ambulance.

Physical Description

Monochrome silver gelatin photograph on paper, mounted in a small army-issued exercise book, with red leather spine and black card cover.

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