"Camels with cacolets used for lying down cases and sitting up cases - method of conveying cases ...

Accession Number P11235.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Fiaschi, Piero Francis Bruno
Place made Egypt
Date made May 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

"Camels with cacolets used for lying down cases and sitting up cases - method of conveying cases across the desert. 13 F Amb Railhead Serabeum May 16." (Original inscription).
From a collection relating to the service of Captain Piero Fiaschi, Australian Army Medical Corps, (later Lieutenant-Colonel, OBE), serving with the 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance in Egypt and as Regimental Medical Officer with the 3rd Light Horse Regiment at Gallipoli. [See images P11235.001 to P11235.040]