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Accession Number | P00252.003 |
Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
Maker |
Fell, William Hewitt |
Place made | Egypt: Cairo |
Date made | 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Australian soldiers standing around in the courtyard of the Mosque of Mahomet Ali, Cairo. This ...
Description
Australian soldiers standing around in the courtyard of the Mosque of Mahomet Ali, Cairo. This photograph was taken by 607 Private William H Fell, AIF, who died of wounds on 4 May 1918. Fell's negatives, taken throughout the war, were forwarded to the Sydney photographer Harold Cazneaux, for whom Fell had been a studio assistant before the war. Cazneaux printed Fell's negatives.