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![Officers and men of [The Black Watch, (Royal Highlanders)] standing in front of Egyptian vernacular building. Officers and men of [The Black Watch, (Royal Highlanders)] standing in front of Egyptian vernacular building.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_library_preview/public/image-gallery/AAA01168.jpg?itok=_v6Ng6h6)
Officers and men of [The Black Watch, (Royal Highlanders)] standing in front of Egyptian vernacular building.
Officers and men of [The Black Watch, (Royal Highlanders)] standing in front of Egyptian vernacular building at the time of the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882.

Egyptian farmers extracting water from the Nile to irrigate their fields in Luxor, Shadouf
Luxor - Shadouf. Egyptian farmers extracting water from the Nile to irrigate their fields.

Karnak - pylone de Ptolomée Nord Karnak
Karnak - pylone de Ptolomée Nord. Temple of Amun Ra: Pylon of Ptolemy III Euergetes from the inside or north side which leads out towards the town of Luxor.

Karnak - view of a carved relief of the Pharaoh Sisera
Karnak - view of a carved relief of the Pharaoh Sisera (Rameses II) of the Bible (according to the British archaeologist Sir Cecil Beaton).

The Colossi of Memnon, at the Theban Necropolis across the Nile from Luxor
The Colossi of Memnon, giant statues of Amenhotep III, at the Theban Necropolis across the Nile from Luxor

Postcard entitled \"The Armistice Meeting\" at Scapa Flow 1918 depicting a \"Kaiser\" Class German Battleship
Postcard \"The Armistice Meeting\" at Scapa Flow 1918 depicting a \"Kaiser\" Class German Battleship, possibly the SMS \"Kaiser\" herself.

Trench, German second line, near Montauban, Somme battlefield, 1916 with stretcher
Photograph showing the effects of the British artillery bombardment on the Somme on the German second line near Montauban.

YMCA driver with YMCA van, 3rd Army, France 1918
Photograph of a YMCA driver of the British 3rd Army with his van in France.