Accession Number | AWM2018.971.1 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | Egypt |
Date made | c August - December 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Australian Rag Time Cooks, Egypt 1915
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.