The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 motorcycle 'AIF No. 6' at the Mena House stables. The motorcycle, a vehicle of 4.25 horsepower, 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 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 123 Sapper Oswald Adelburt (Ossie) Thiele, an original despatch rider with the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company, standing with his Precision
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
France. December 1918. Sitting on his motor cycle, Corporal A. Reid, despatch rider, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, at Foucaucourt Chateau.
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 uni
