Collection relating to Albert Bissett Amess

Outdoors group portrait at a country racecourse or showground of the training staff probably for reinforcements to the Australian companies of the Imperial Camel Corps. In the front are two rows of men from various Light Horse units, all of whom appear to be NCOs. The soldier in the front row (extreme left) is a returned member of the 5th Light Horse Regiment. He is wearing three wound stripes on the sleeve of his left arm. In the front row (fifth from left) is a man from the 12th Light Horse Regiment, while the two soldiers in the back row (third and eighth from left) are Tasmanians from the 6th Light Horse Regiment who are wearing the unit's distinctive wallaby-fur puggarees on their hats. Most of the men are holding lances to which pennants are attached, and all of them are wearing bandoliers across their chests. To the rear, two officers are seated on a camel which may have been borrowed from a local circus for training purposes. (Original print housed in AWM Archive Store)