2-753-073 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Map of Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula', 1917. Fighting began in January 1915, when a German-led Ottoman force invaded the Sinai Peninsula, then part of the British Protectorate of Egypt, to raid the Suez Canal. From "The War Illustrated Album De Luxe - Volume VII. The Autumn Campaign of 1916", edited by J. A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Limited, London, 1917]