Romani

Date: 1916-1918

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-604

Description: Album is the first part of a record of the British campaign in north-eastern Egypt and Palestine from 1916-1918. It begins with views of Alexandria and Cairo where Australian and New Zealand Troops from Gallipoli began their rest, and recovery. There are views of the troops at the military training camp at Zeitoun where they were retrained and equipped for the Western Front and the defence of Egypt. In relation to the Palestine campaign, the album covers the driving of the Turks and their German allies out of north-eastern Egypt, the capture of the oases of Quatia and Romani, and the subsequent capture of El Arish. The album is a very good record of these events with much incidental detail. Cities, architecture, ruins, places, the locals, farming, crops and farm animals are all included. Most usefully it is a good record of the military operations from the perspective of a New Zealand participant Arrangement: Negatives relating to prints in this album should be among those registered at F 178589 1/2 to F 178976 1/2, and F 178993 1/2 to F 179124 1/2 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Between 1915 and 1918]

By: Davis, L P, active 1915

Reference: PA1-o-514

Description: Album of photographs probably taken by L P Davis. (Possibly I P Davis). They all relate to the First World War, first in Egypt and Palestine, with a break in England, before then being posted to Belgium and France. Many of the desert photographs are associated with medical arrangements, with the transportation of wounded soldiers on "cacelot camels", and on sledges or sandcarts; the Imperial Camel Corps; the 27th General Hospital in Cairo; care of wounded Turkish soldiers; and the New Zealand Mounted Field Ambulance. Other desert images show a group of Scottish soldiers; Bedouin prisoners; camel convoys; transportation of soldiers across the desert on long open trains; the transportation of water tanks by camel; biplanes; and British and German tanks. The English photographs are taken in London and Cambridge. The Belgian and French photographs show bomb damage, particularly at Ypres, including damage to the Cathedral; the village of Bapaume after capture by New Zealand troops in 1918; Boulogne, Bertincourt, Messines and Armentieres; with one photograph of a horse laden with ammunition bogged down in a sink hole. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan pigskin cover, entitled "Photographs" with name in lower right-hand corner "L.P. Davis" (?); 16.5 x 21.0 cm Provenance: Donated by Ruth Watson, Auckland, 1985

Date: 1916-1918, 2015

By: Ebbitt, William Henry, 1893-1970; Dunkley, Gillian, active 2016

Reference: ATL-Group-00135

Description: Collection contains: Photographs taken and collected by William Henry Ebbitt during his service during World War One. Photographs mainly taken in Egypt depict other military personnel including S S M Ebbitt with Sgt Curtis and Sgt Hines wounded in hospital, Corporal Ferguson of the 9th Squadron from Mohaka Wairoa, Major Armstrong, Father McDonald, D. McMillan, W. O'Donald, 9th Squadron officers and football team, Turk prisoners, military horses (feeding, watering, under fire, treking), desert patrol, Indian transport men, camel transports, military camps (Bir el Maler, Kirba, Romani), visiting ancient Egyptian tombs at Katia (Quatia), and an aeroplane which landed behind their lines. Includes a photograph postcard from W H Ebbitt to his brother Len (dated November 1917). Text of postcard transcribed by Gillian Dunkley. Photographs are numbered from 1 to 102 (note there is some duplicates with differing annotations on the back) and are accompanied by documentation which provides information and notes relating to each photograph and biographic information relating to Ebbitt. This documentation was compiled by Gillian Dunkley. A selection of the photographs has been digitised by John Dunkley in January and February 2015. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Collection has been arranged by the donor prior to their deposit with the library. Each photograph is numbered (enclosed in a circle) on the back. These numbers reference electronic scans also supplied with the collection on deposit. Corporal William Henry Ebbitt, of Wairoa, served in the Wellington Mounted Rifles (Regiment No. 11/250) during World War I. He saw action at Gallipoli and Eygpt. Quantity: 111 b&w original photographic print(s). 119 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photograph prints, typescripts Provenance: Donor is the daughter of William Henry Ebbitt.

Date: 1915-1916

By: Jekyll, Edward Joseph Richmond Webb, 1884-1965; Bradshaw, W M, active 1975

Reference: PA1-o-051

Description: Photographs of World War I in Gallipoli, Jerusalem and Palestine Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with light brown imitation sacking cover "Photographs", 210 x 270 mm