Informal portrait of Captain James Joachim Nicholas, 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance, in his tent ...

Accession Number P09381.012
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt: Alexandria
Date made c 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of Captain James Joachim Nicholas, 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance, in his tent at Sidi Bishr Camp, Alexandria, Egypt. Captain Nicholas, a medical practitioner of Colac, Victoria, embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Southern on 18 October 1914. Later promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he was killed in action on 20 September 1917.