Group portrait of Australian prisoners at Afion Kara Hissar. In the back row from left to right; ...

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Accession Number A02265
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Ottoman Empire: Turkey
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Group portrait of Australian prisoners at Afion Kara Hissar. In the back row from left to right; Lieutenant (Lt) L H Luscombe of the 14th Battalion AIF, captured on Gallipoli on 8 August 1915, Lt S R Jordan of the 9th Battalion also captured on Gallipoli in June 1915, Lt W E Elston of the 16th Battalion, captured on Gallipoli on 26 April 1915 and Captain J A Brown, a Sydney doctor serving as a Medical Officer with the Gloucestershire Yeomanry, captured on the Palestine front in 1916. In the front row from left to right; Lt C H Vautin of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) captured on the Palestine front in July 1917, Captain T W White AFC, captured on the Mesopotamian front in November 1915 and Lt W H Treloar AFC, captured on the Mesopotamian front in September 1915.