"The Mauretania as a hospital ship at Lemnos." (Original inscription). [RMS Mauretania is the ...

Accession Number P11235.009
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Fiaschi, Piero Francis Bruno
Place made Greece: Aegean Islands, Lemnos, Mudros
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

"The Mauretania as a hospital ship at Lemnos." (Original inscription). [RMS Mauretania is the ship with four funnels in the centre of the image.]
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]