El Arish

Date: 1916-1917

By: Wilkie, Donald J, active 1982

Reference: PAColl-0183

Description: Photographs taken during World War I, photographer unknown. Each photograph is annotated on the reverse - possibly by Donald Wilkie. They show military personnel in Egypt around the battles of Magdhaba (1916) and Rafah (1917). Includes: - Infantry marching, and riding on both horse and camel back, heading to and from battle, - Turkish prisoners and guns which have been captured, - Military camp near El Arish, - A minesweeper wrecked off the coast, - Hospital, hospital train, and wounded soldiers being transported by Red Cross carts, - and a football match between Auckland and Wellington troops. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints (mainly silver gelatin prints) Processing information: This collection was retrospectively described in 2015. D J Wilkie's role in the creation of this collection is unknown.

Date: 1 January 1917 - 31 December 1917

From: Jackson, Ynyr George, 1898-1961: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12292-3

Description: Diary for the year 1917. Jackson, member of the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade, Machine Gun Squadron, describes being stationed in the Sinai Desert, and the camps at El Arish and Rafa. Later stationed at Khan Yunis, and other camps in Palestine, including Deir El Belah. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s) bound volume. Physical Description: Diary bound in gilt stamped leather with pencil sheath spine, 12.5 x 8 cm.

Date: 1916

From: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :[Sketches from war service in India and the Middle East, 1919-1918] / F L McFarlane

Reference: E-288-q-012

Description: Two landscape sketches. At top left is a view over water towards land on the horizon under a red sky. At lower right is a view of the hilltop tomb of a sheikh, with a central dome. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page, 140 x 230 mm.

Date: [between 1914-1918]

From: Buckland, Alfred Francis, 1882-1971 :Photographs taken during World War I of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces in Jerusalem, and the Auckland Mounted Rifles in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine

Reference: 1/2-066837-F

Description: Landing supplies at El Arish, Egypt, during World War I. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Note on back of file print reads "El Arish on the fringe of the desert" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1916-1918

From: Powles family : Papers

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: 1916-1917

From: Powles family : Papers

Reference: PA1-o-813

Description: This album relates to the British campaign against the Turks in north-eastern Egypt and Palestine, 1916-1917. Charles Powles compiled a detailed record of his experience of these events up to the taking of Jerusalem in albums PA1-q-604, PA1-q-605. This Album should be read in relation to them. They are more of a sequential record of the military campaign; this has a greater focus on people and scenic places. It begins with Cairo, then moves north and finishes in Jaffa. Jaffa was in control of the British forces by November 1917, but British possession of the town was not secured until late December, after the capture of Jerusalem. Because Jerusalem does not appear in this album, the Jaffa pictures were probably taken in November 1917. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1917-1918

From: Powles family : Papers

Reference: PA1-q-605

Description: Album is the second part of a two-album record of the British campaigns in north-eastern Egypt and Palestine, 1916-1918. It is a record of the Palestine campaign after the capture of El Arish. Thus its story really begins at Rafa on the Egyptian/Palestine boarder and ends with General Allenby's triumphal entry into the city of "Jerusalem the Blessed" (his words) on 11 December 1917. As a record it presents a detailed account of the actions, movements, encampments, places, troops, countryside, and locals as experienced by a New Zealand officer participant. The photographs are well documented and identified. In relation to place names, spellings from books and maps have been used. Album spellings have been added to the "non preferred" slot in the place records, so that they are linked to the official place name spellings and can thus be used in a search. Arrangement: Negatives for the prints in this album should be among those registered at F 178589 1/2 to F 178976 1/2, and F178993 1/2 to F 179124 1/2 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).