The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
1918-12-25. Soldiers eat a Christmas meal from their dixies aboard the hospital ship Bakara on their return to Australia at the end of the war. Amongst the group is probably 3719 Private Ralph Sylvester Scobie, 54th Battalion, who was wounded in France. (Original housed in AWM Archive Store)
Newcastle, NSW. 1917-10-28. 3719 Private Ralph Sylvester Scobie, 54th Battalion (left), his mother May Scobie and his brother 7583 Private Frank Maitland Scobie, 4th Battalion, outside the railway sta
Salisbury Plain Area, England. 1918-02. Studio portrait of 3719 Private Ralph Sylvester Scobie, 54th Battalion (left) and 3688 Private Clement Vincent (Charlie) O'Brien, 54th Battalion, at the Codford
Julis, Palestine. 1940-06-12. Members of 2/2nd Battalion present their dixies for food during outdoors mess parade. (Original housed in AWM Archive Store)
Informal group portrait of soldiers preparing to eat Christmas dinner outside the tent lines of a camp. Amongst the food laid out on a cloth on the ground are decoratively cut melons sitting on tins a
Probably Perth, WA. c. 1948-12. Group portrait of members of the 2nd Field Company Association, Royal Australian Engineers, and their wives at their annual Christmas party. Middle row, fourth from the
Sed-el-Bahr, Gallipoli. 1915-04-25. Smoke rises from the fort (marked with an x) during bombardment by SS Queen Elizabeth. Note the hospital ship going in under fire to collect the wounded and the hor
