Accession Number | P08347.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | |
Maker |
Unknown |
Date made | 1916-1917 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
"Pay day on the desert That is me running past the bell tent for my pay-book. The chap walking ...
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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