The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Cairo, Egypt. 1914-12. Formal outdoors portrait of 123 Sapper Oswald Adelburt (Ossie) Thiele, an original despatch rider with the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company, standing with his Precision Big Four motorcycle 'AIF No. 5' at the Mena House stables. Another Australian soldier sits on a horse in the background (left). A vehicle of 4.25 horsepower, the Precision motorcycle was manufactured in Australia by A.G. Healing and Company of 354 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne.
Cairo, Egypt. 1914-12. Formal outdoors portrait of Sapper Jim Stewart, an original despatch rider with the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company, standing beside his Precision Big Four motorcycle '
Cairo, Egypt. 1914-12. Formal outdoors portrait of Sapper William Harold (Bill) Ilsley, an original despatch rider with the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company, sitting on his Precision Big Four
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
Cairo, Egypt. 1914-12. Formal outdoors portrait of 122 Sapper (Spr) Thomas Edison S. (Ted) Corry, an original despatch rider with the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company, sitting on his Precision
Gallipoli, Turkey. 1915. A saucepan or dixie sits in an improvised oven in the dugout of 123 Sapper Oswald Adelburt (Ossie) Thiele, a member of the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company.
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
