"Pay day on the desert That is me running past the bell tent for my pay-book. The chap walking ...

Accession Number P08347.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Date made 1916-1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

"Pay day on the desert That is me running past the bell tent for my pay-book. The chap walking this way is J Drage a Victorian; he died of wounds after the Rafa fight when we defeated the Turks 9/1/1917." 1966 Trooper John Drage, 8th Light Horse and Imperial Camel Corps, died of wounds on 28 January 1917 in Egypt.

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