The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke,'D' Troop, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, in his tent. He is sitting on a wicker seat in a deep dugout with the base of the tent above his head at ground level. Note the nets pulled up to allow maximum ventilation in the summer heat. Burke, a keen photographer, was the editor of the Squadron's unit history, 'With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia'.
Informal portrait of 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke,'D' Troop, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, standing near the camp noticeboard for Anzac Wireless group.
On the morning of the 17 August 1918, 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke, 'D' Troop, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, looks out from the lower slopes of the Elwend
Portrait of 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, sitting the at Central YMCA in Baghdad, in the summer of 1918 where he could purchase a cup of char (tea) and wads (
The contents of a soldier's parcel from home. This parcel was addressed to 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke,'D' Troop, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. The parce
Portrait of 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke, 'D' Troop, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, in November 1918 at Ruz Railhead, writing a letter home. Note the picke
Portrait of 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, reading a book, sitting on his bed in a corner of his billet.
