Frederick bishop world war 1

Australian War Stories ARRIVING IN EGYPT HMAT Ulysses, with Frederick and his mates on-board, arrived at Aden before sailing up the Suez Canal to Egypt – a land that had seen more armies than almost any other. It was here, in the shadow of the pyramids, that the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps would be first grouped together under the now hallowed acronym ‘ANZAC’. The Australians travelled to camps at Maadi on the Nile and Mena, situated near the pyramids of Giza. The training was arduous: marching through sand, digging and attacking trenches for eight hours a day, six days a week. From mid-1916, many of the Australian troops continued on to England where they trained at camps on the Salisbury Plains, near Stonehenge. Here they prepared for trench warfare on the Western Front, including training with new types of weapons and learning how to deal with poison gas attacks. Others completed their training in Egypt and sailed directly to Marseille, joining their units in Northern France and Belgium. 📷 Australian troops arrive at Alexandria in Egypt aboard HMAT Orvieto, December 1914 (Photo by Phillip Schuler, courtesy Australian War Memori