Lemnos, Greece, 1915. Informal outdoors portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) John Edward Chaplin, 1st ...

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Accession Number P02282.059
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Stevenson, Walter Ormond
Place made Greece: Aegean Islands, Lemnos
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

Lemnos, Greece, 1915. Informal outdoors portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) John Edward Chaplin, 1st Divisional Train, Australian Army Service Corps (AASC), standing outside a well-constructed stone house and nursing a puppy. A local woman sits knitting at the top of the flight of stone stairs behind him. Lt Chaplin is wearing jodhpurs and a pith helmet.