P05093.026
Image copyright:
Copyright expired - public domain
This image is in the Public Domain
- ID number
- P05093.026
- Photographer
- Unknown
- Object type
- Black & white - Print silver gelatin
- Place made
- Ottoman Empire: Asluj
- Date made
- October 1917
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- Group portrait of men of the 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment, resting in the sand near Asluj before the charge at Beersheba. Identified but their exact position unknown are: 930 Private (Pte) Edgar Louis Charlton; Jenkins; unidentified; Anderson; Baird; Smith; 2954 Pte Garnet Lindsay Mawbey; 1344 Pte Robert Alfred Watson (of Narrabri, NSW, who died of wounds on 10 November 1917 aged 23); 1259 Pte Alfred Edward Press (of Forbes NSW, who died of wounds on 27 March 1918); 964 Pte Wallace Gordon Wynne; 1340 Sergeant John Rupert Watson; 1320 George Edward Howard (who was later awarded the Military Medal (MM) on 2 April 1918).
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