Original Caption: "Three officers of the ? :Thompson, Wardle and Whitty". ...

Place Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Palestine
Accession Number J01133
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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

Original Caption: "Three officers of the ? :Thompson, Wardle and Whitty". Wardle referst to Captain Robert Norman Wardle, Mobile Veterinary Section (embarked 10 May 1917 on HMAT A42 'Boorona' as part of 1917 special reinforcements) from Ballarat, Vic. Whitty is probably Captain John Whitty, HQ Australian Mounted Division (AMD). The identy of Thompson is not known but he too was probably AMD Corps Staff.