Historical information

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Physical description

Photograph, framed with campaign medals. Photograph - sepia toned, on paper, a large group of soldiers on the stone blocks of a pyramid. The 11th Battalion, AIF taken at the Great Pyramid of Cheops on 28th February 1915.
Below photograph within mount - information name plate, gold coloured metal. Four campaign medals with ribbons and two Rising Sun Badges.
Mount - dark green coloured cardboard.
Frame - dark brown coloured timber with decorative moulding. Glass front, MDF backing board.

Inscriptions & markings

Information from name plate - black coloured print "ANZAC".
"After arriving in Egypt, the battalion camped and trained at Mena, ten miles from Cairo, at the foot of the Greatr Pyramid of/ Cheops. On 10th January 1915, prior to leaving Egypt, a photograph of more than 800 original officers and men of the/ 11th Battalion was taken at the Great Pyramid of Cheops on 28th February 1915".