Tel el Kebir, coffee stall
Maker
Bestall (MBE) Leonard Delabere
Production date
May 1916
Current rights
Public Domain
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Object detail
About this object
The photograph shows a coffee stall at Tel el Kebir, Egypt. The photograph is glued to a page in Leo Bestall's diary and album. He has written under the photograph: Shorty Crawshaw in a coffee stall. Shorty Crawshaw is Louis (Lewis) Gordon Crawshaw, known as Gordon.
Photographer, Leo Bestall.
Date, exact date unknown but probably sometime in April/May 1916 as Leo embarked from Wellington on 1 April 1916.
Photographer, Leo Bestall.
Date, exact date unknown but probably sometime in April/May 1916 as Leo embarked from Wellington on 1 April 1916.
Production date
May 1916
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black & white photograph.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 34 x 55mm
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
May 1916
Current rights
Other number(s)
19129, 91616
Public comments
Louis Gordon “Shorty” Crawshaw was my grandfather. He lived to the age of 90 years. He never spoke of the war and this is the first time I’ve ever seen a picture of him during this time.
- Sandra Crawshaw posted 5 years ago.