Description
Group portrait of Australian and New Zealand servicemen in front of a barracks at a Turkish internment camp. Standing, left to right: 477 Private (Pte) Charles F McLean, 14th Battalion; 970 Pte James Gordon Young, 7th Light Horse Regiment; 2826 Stoker James Cullen, Submarine AE2; 1015 Driver D'Arey St George Armstrong, 4th Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance. Seated, left to right: Corporal Currie, New Zealand Mounted Rifles; 1351 Trooper Duncan Leslie Richardson, 1st Light Horse Regiment, captured at the battle of Romani on 4 August 1916; Cpl Thornycroft, 9th Light Horse Regiment; and the dog named 'Dodger,' the camp mascot. This image taken at Belemedik Camp, Bozanti, near the Taurus Mountains, Turkey. Australian Red Cross records reveal that the men in this group were repatriated from Turkey to Alexandria in November and December of 1918.
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Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
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Colour: Black & white
Credit Line
Lent by Trooper D L Richardson
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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