The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Mena Camp, Egypt. c. 1915-01. Sitting on a makeshift step in front of a tent pitched in the sand, two members of the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company read letters from home while two other unit members look on. Left to right: back row: Sapper (Spr) George Gibson Paterson, a despatch rider; Sergeant William Charles McCutchan. Front row: Dick Ellis, who is smoking a pipe; 36 Spr John Thomas (Jock) Nicholls, who is holding a rifle. Set up inside the tent is a box bearing the trademark or label of Kiwi Boot Polish. Paterson later won an MM and an MC, and McCutchan an MC, DCM and MBE.
Gallipoli, Turkey. 1915-05. 125 Sapper (Spr) Arthur George Wade (left) and Spr George Gibson Paterson, both members of the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company, resting in their first dugout on Ga
Cairo, Egypt. 1914-12. Formal outdoors portrait of Sapper George Gibson Paterson aged 19, an original despatch rider with the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company, sitting on his Precision Big Fou
Lemnos, Greece. c. 1915-12. Informal outdoors group portrait of members of the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company opening Christmas billies and reading letters or messages from home soon after t
Northern France, 1917. A row of tents comprising the tent lines of the 2nd Divisional Signals Company, 1st AIF, with a neat stack of rifles in front of each tent. Perched atop the stack of rifles in t
Indoors group portrait of members of the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company who are recovering from wounds received at Passchendaele in September and October 1917. Identified, left to right, bac
An outdoors group portrait of eight well-known members of the 22nd Battalion, all unidentified. Two lieutenants in the front row (second and third from the left) are both wearing a Military Cross (MC
