Photographs relating to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bickerton Blackburn, Australian Army Medical Corps

Accession Number P08401.010
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made Ottoman Empire: Palestine, Shellal
Date made c 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

A close up of a portion of the Shellal mosaic. The remains of a sixth century Byzantine church floor that was discovered by soldiers of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade near Shellal at an abandoned Turkish machine gun position. What remains of this mosaic was removed and is now on display at the Australian War Memorial.

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