The entrance to the camping ground at Hampton Bridge used by 1st Cavalry Division, Headquarters ...

Accession Number P02835.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Humphery, Robert Claude Vivian
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Kangaroo Valley
Date made 1 November 1939
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

The entrance to the camping ground at Hampton Bridge used by 1st Cavalry Division, Headquarters Signal Office. NX119988 Lieutenant Colonel Robert Claud Vivian Humphery was the Officer Commanding, and NX235 Lieutenant (later Major) Robert Charles Anstee was Second in Command. There were 42 men in the camp and they trained on two wireless transmitter sets. There is a guard at the gate and an officer on a motorcycle, with the registration number, DR 02.

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