Mounted troops beside Suez Canal

These troopers of the New Zealand Mounted Brigade or the Anzac Mounted Division riding along an embankment beside the Suez Canal, Egypt, were probably photographed by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Guy Powles in 1916.

This photograph was probably taken after the New Zealand Mounted Brigade moved from Zeitoun to Serapeum, near the Suez Canal, in January 1916. They continued training and the Anzac Mounted Division was formed on 15 March 1916. The division moved to Kantara on 23 April 1916 after an Ottoman Turkish force attacked the Suez Canal. The Sinai campaign had begun.