WWI Photograph Album - Egypt, Malta and Sinai & Palestine.

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Accession No.1996.1091.4DescriptionPhotograph album of 7/1031 Sergeant Francis (aka Frank) John Bilton, Canterbury Mounted Rifles (CMR). The album includes Canterbury Mounted Rifles in Egypt, 1916; group photo of soldiers; Frank at Moascar Camp; troops at breakfast while on patrol; New Zealand records staff at Cairo; original graves of men from 8th Regiment, CMR: 7/1410 W Sanderson, 7/707 G Davis, 7/1215 C H Crowe, 7/1246 J Mckay, 7/1568 Lieutenant C Blakeney, 7/590 Major H H Hammond (Officer Commanding 8th Regiment); Les Richards of Waimate; Nurse Condick; Frank on his horse; Sister Mary L Christmas and Sister Margaret Bilton with the Signallers dog mascot at Salonika; 8th CMR camp in Egypt; group of men from 5th Reinforcements; dog mascot of 5th Reinforcements; a ward at Valetta Hospital, Malta decorated for Christmas; patients, nurses, hospital staff and Santa Claus in ward at St Elmo Hospital, Malta; portrait of Frank and a mate at Zeitoun; soldiers hanging strips of films out to dry 12 December 1916; men from Mountain Battery at Sinai; country side scenes at Jericho; football game; Sergeant Ken Tennant having a shave; historical sites at Holy Land; soldiers opening mail and parcels sent from Temuka; Brownie the horse; kit inspection at Bir-el-Mahr; captured Bedouins; group photo of staff of Headquarters, Cairo, 1 June 1917; George Paterson and Claude Pocock; crowd gathering at Reading the Proclamation on the occupation of Jaffa; Wellington Mounted Rifles with Brigadier Meldrum in command; row of howitzers captured from the Turks in Palestine; a 4.7 inch naval gun captured at Beersheba; and Sister Ann D Cameron (?) at Temple Deir-el-Medinet.

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