P00342.010
Image copyright:
Copyright expired - public domain
This image is in the Public Domain
- ID number
- P00342.010
- Photographer
- Unknown
- Object type
- Black & white
- Place made
- Ottoman Empire: Palestine
- Date made
- c. 1914-1916
- Physical description
- Black & white
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- Photograph of Corporal W. Hudson Fysh of the 3rd Australian Light Horse Regiment and the 1st Australian Light Horse Machine-Gun Squadron. Fysh later transferred to the Australian Flying Corps as an observer, gaining the rank of Lieutenant on No. 1 Squadron. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and after the war was allowed to qualify as a pilot. He later went on to become the founder of Qantas and received his knighthood in 1953.
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