IMAGE
Horses in the desert at Beersheba (Bir Saba), Palestine
- Date
- October 1917
- Reference
- PAColl-5863-1-05-1
- Description
View of horses in the desert with a dead one in the foreground. According to the information on the back of the print this image was taken at Beersheba ( Bir Saba) after the action was over. The soldier in the middle distance is identified as Martin Ashton Eccles. Photographed by an unknown photographer in early november 1917.
Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Bir Saba after action over. Ones self in the fore ground
This was taken after the Battle for Beersheba (Bir Saba) which involved taking the hill Tel el Saba. The battle occured on the 30th and the 31st of October 1917.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8 x 5 cms
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Eccles, Martin Ashton :Photographs of Palestine and Gallipoli, 1914-1918
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print, 8 x 5 cms
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Horses in the desert at Beersheba (Bir Saba), Palestine. Eccles, Martin Ashton :Photographs of Palestine and Gallipoli, 1914-1918. Ref: PAColl-5863-1-05-1. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22700087More information can be found in our terms of use.