Note on the back read:

“A ??? of Arabs sailing on the Nile, {Kena} Note the gowns they wear, which are of dense threads. Aug 1917”

Photograph taken along the Nile River either near Kesha or Kena, Egypt.

Evan Samuel Rees joined the army at 19 and served in the Middle East during the First World War. Medal no.1669, PTE E. S. Rees with the R.A.M.C (Royal Army Medical Corps). He survived the WW1 and returned to live at home in the Swansea area.