Accession Number | P09381.011 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
Maker |
Unknown |
Date made | c 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Informal portrait of Captain James Joachim Nicholas, 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance, standing ...
Description
Informal portrait of Captain James Joachim Nicholas, 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance, standing with a group of unidentified sisters of the Australian Army Nursing service (AANS). Captain Nicholas, a medical practitioner of Colac, Victoria, embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Southern on 18 October 1914. Later promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he was killed in action on 20 September 1917.