Collection relating to Thomas Charles Kelso Accession Number: P03608.005

Description

Two Australian soldiers standing next to a narrow gauge petrol-electric locomotive manufactured by Dick, Kerr and Company of Kilmarnock, Scotland (right). The soldier smoking is possibly 566 Sapper Thomas Charles Kelso, of Albury, NSW, 1st Australian Light Railway Operating Company who is leaning on an American built Westinghouse petrol-electric locomotive (left).

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Accession Number
P03608.005
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Support: Polyester
Date Made
c 1917-1918
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor E Durr
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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