Collection related to the service of 704 Ernest Charles Barnes

Accession Number C00433
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Barnes, Ernest Charles
Place made United Kingdom: England, Wiltshire, Hurdcott
Date made January 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of the unidentified soldiers who won a prize in a snow modelling competition at Hurdcott Convalescent Camp on the Salisbury Plain. Some of the men are holding snowballs. In front of them is their creation, a female kangaroo with a joey peeping out from the pouch. (From the collection of 704 Driver Ernest Charles Barnes who served with the 1st Field Artillery Brigade, 21st Howitzer Brigade and 2nd Field Artillery Brigade.)