The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
El Dabaa, Egypt, 1916-01. The Hon. Thomas Henley MLA (left) delivers a speech to a large group of soldiers of the 1st Divisional Train, Australian Army Service Corps (AASC), part of the West Frontier Force, most of whom are lined up on parade. Behind the parliamentarian is a great quantity of Christmas billies, boxes and tinned foods which, as an official representative of the Australian Comforts Fund, he is presenting as gifts to the soldiers. The soldier standing in the foreground (right) with a pipe in his mouth is probably Major Albert Armytage Holdsworth, the unit CO. Sitting in the foreground (second from right) and also smoking a pipe is Captain Walter Ormond Stevenson. (Donor D. Stevenson) (Compare images C04960 and P02282.052)
El Dabaa, Egypt, 1916-01. A great quantity of Christmas billies, boxes and tinned foods, gifts of the Australian Comforts Fund, is set out on the ground in front of members of the 1st Divisional Train
Egypt, 1915. Outdoors group portrait of officers of the 1st Divisional Train, Australian Army Service Corps (AASC). The group includes: ? Captain (Capt) Clarence Abraham Pyke (back row, third from lef
Major General Wallace, commanding the Western Frontier Force, and Colonel Hunter, GSOL at the distribution of Australian War Chest Comforts by the Hon. Thomas Henley, MLA to Australian troops, at Matr
The Hon. Thomas Henley, MLA (on left of picture), representing the Australian Comforts Fund, distributing Christmas Billies and Comforts to the Australians at the Western Frontier Force, at El Dabba.
Probably El Dabaa, Egypt, 1915-12-25. On a bitterly cold day, five members of the 1st Divisional Train, Australian Army Service Corps (AASC), eat a meagre Christmas dinner on an unprotected piece of
Matrub, Western Egypt. January 1916. Gifts of tinned food from the Australian War Chest Club ready for distribution to the Australians (Light Horse Squadron and Army Service Corps personnel) serving w
