Description
Payday in Tobruk... a town with a financial system all of its own. The bank issues the money to the paymaster, the paymaster pays the men, the men buy beer at the canteen and the canteen pays the money into the bank...then they start all over again. The seven men in the foreground are:- VX2176 Corporal (Cpl) G. Whiteside of Camperdown, Vic; NX10014 Mech. Boyd, of Singleton, NSW; QX651 Private (Pte) Lettes of Ipswich, QLD; NX11511 Pte. W. Cocker of Sydney, NSW; SX732 Pte. F. J. Sandford of Mt Lofty, SA. At table: SX1540 Sgt. T. K. Mackay, of Adelaide, SA; NX3026 Cpl R. Sullivan of Sydney, NSW. (NEGATIVE BY ANDERSON).
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Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film original acetate
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Measurement
Overall: 8 cm x 10.6 cm
Image: 7.6 cm x 9.3 cm
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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