The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Cairo, Egypt. December 1915. A civilian woman presents a Christmas billy to a soldier while watched by another woman and an officer. A soldier in the foreground wearing staff sergeant and wheeler/cartwright arm badges prepares to move away carrying his billy and a another gift in a small box. The billies were distributed by the Australian Comforts Fund. The original caption, by 8932 Driver Jack (John) O. McKenzie, 20th Australian Army Service Corps (AASC), reads `Every one was delighted to get one. The one I received was from two Melbourne girls. They distributed over five thousand in our camp & as far as I know every soldier in Egypt got one.'
Cairo, Egypt. November 1915. Local men serve at the tables of an outdoor eating area at a racecourse outside Cairo, while soldiers and civilians gather in front of a grandstand in the background. The
Alexandra Club Christmas billy, possibly at Gallipoli. The image on the billy consists of a kangaroo on the Gallipoli peninsula using his tail to knock out a Turkish man. The inscription reads, 'This
Egypt. c. 1915. Soldiers, including members of 2nd Company, 20th Australian Army Supply Corps (AASC), take part in a wrestling on horseback competition. In the centre of the photograph wearing a hat a
Korea. 28 May 1952. No-one missed out when Australian gift parcels, donated by the Queensland Patriotic Fund, were distributed to British troops serving in Korea. At the Welsh Regiment even Taffy IX,
Members of the 20th Battalion in a trench at Gallipoli. One soldier is spotting the enemy whilst another prepares to throw a stick grenade.
Group portrait of some of the 10th Reinforcements of the 6th Light Horse Regiment, posed with the Sphinx and Great Pyramid in the background. 1341 Driver (Dvr) Alfred Vandenbergh is identified, marke
