The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Cairo, Egypt. c. December 1915. Informal portrait of 8932 Driver John (Jack ) Oag Mackenzie and his brother Gordon, seated on a wooden crate outside their tent. Jack Mackenzie of Bathurst, NSW, enlisted on 24 March 1915, aged 26. He was with the Ammunition Reserve, 4th Light Horse Brigade and was then attached to the 3rd Section, 20th Australian Army Service Corps (AASC) until 5 April 1919. Jack is smoking a pipe and is wearing a proficiency badge on his right arm of Skill in Horse Driving (2nd Class), the design being crossed whips and spur. This badge came into existence in 1903 as a militia badge, also being worn through WW1. His brother was Lieutenant Livingstone Gordon Mackenzie, Australian Flying Corps, who enlisted on 8 February 1915 and retired on 6 May 1919. The tent has a partially obscured message of 'Merry Xmas to all' painted on it, a lopsided horseshoe hung at the entrance to the tent and a cane bed in view behind Jack.
Studio portrait of 8932 Driver John (Jack) Oag Mackenzie and his brother 2nd Lieutenant Livingstone Gordon. Jack McKenzie of Bathurst, NSW, enlisted on 24 March 1915 aged 26. He was with the Ammunitio
Studio portrait probably of 8932 Driver (Dvr) John Oag (Jack) Mackenzie, 20th Company, Australian Army Service Corps, of Carlton, NSW (originally of Cooks River, Cumberland), wearing a driver's badge
A group of members of the 4th Reinforcements, 59th Infantry Battalion, 15th Infantry Brigade, informally grouped on the wharf, waiting to board the troopship HMAT Orsova (A67). Most of the soldiers a
Mont St Quentin, France. 14 December 1918. Extensive destruction of vegetation and infrastructure in a landscape near the village. Note especially in the middle background the entrance to a former Ger
Nine soldiers including 8932 Driver Jack (John) O. McKenzie, 20th Australian Army Service Corps (AASC), and other members of 20th AASC poke their heads through the side opening of a tent which has bee
Cairo, Egypt. c. November 1915. Informal portrait of nine members of Ammunition Reserve, 4th Light Horse Brigade, peering out from under a tent while leaning on kitbags which have been positioned towa
