14th March 1915

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14 SUNDAY 13 SATURDAY

Visited the Dead City. The tram takes into the centre of these slums. It seems this is the only place in or about Cairo where you can be alone. On roaming down the narrow streets with old stone & mud walls and houses hundreds of years old. We spent most of the day here Norm Rooney & I takeing (sic) photos of the tombstones. Saw The Tombs of Mammmalooks. Went there to the Citidel. A beautiful place is the Mosque here. A fine view of Cairo can be got here. (Photos taken)

14 SUNDAY

(name). 3969

(name) 585

These are the names of some

very good natured wounded Indian

soldiers

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City of the dead outside Cairo.

Four unidentified soldiers, including an Indian, having a picnic in a cemetery

in the company of two female visitors. Egypt 1915

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