Firing line of New Zealand Mounted Rifles at Rafah, Egypt

Firing line of New Zealand Mounted Rifles at Rafah, Egypt
Date
1917
By
Powles, Charles Guy, 1872-1951
Reference
PA1-q-605-05-3
Description

Part of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles firing line during the Battle of Rafah, Egypt. Shows a row of men lying on the ground with their rifles. Photographed January 1917 by Charles Guy Powles.

Publication note - 'The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine', Lieut-Col C Guy Powles, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1922, p.73

Inscriptions: Album page - left of image - Attacking across the glacis-like plain at Rafa. NZMR firing-line.

Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 5.4 x 7.8 cm, mounted on album page

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Powles family papers / The Egyptian and Palestine Campaigns of 1916-1918. From El Arish to Jerusalem
Format
1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Gelatin silver prints, Silver gelatin print 5.4 x 7.8 cm, mounted on album page, Orientation: Horizontal image
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