Australian Rag Time Cooks, Egypt 1915

Accession Number AWM2018.971.1
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt
Date made c August - December 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

Group studio portrait title 'Australian rag time cooks Egypt 1915'. Identified in the centre of the photograph is 496 Temporary Sergeant James Gunn, 16 Battalion, who was wounded at the Dardanelles (1915), and later held as a prisoner of war in Limburg, Germany (1918). Some men in the image are holding cooks' implements such as knives, cleavers, a steel and a hacksaw. In the centre of the front row is a local man wearing an apron, possibly a chef. A soldier in the back row is wearing his slouch hat back to front.

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