'Dorsets Camp. Sidi Bishr', Egypt, 1936

Photograph, Egypt, 1936.

Tented camp in the desert, Sidi Bishr, near Alexandria, Egypt.

2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, deployed to Palestine in 1936. The unit sailed to Alexandria, acclimatised and trained at the Sidi Bishr camp, and then moved on to Jerusalem and Jenin.

From an album of photographs associated with Ernest Edward (Ted) Senior, Dorsetshire Regiment, 1936-1945.