Collection relating to Thomas Charles Kelso

Accession Number P03608.010
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Western Front
Date made c 1917-1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

An unidentified engineer from one of the Australian Light Railway Operating Companies standing in a Baldwin, narrow gauge 4-6-0T steam locomotive, with the serial number 870 and the works number 44871 (not visible). It is stationary along a section of track somewhere on the Western Front. The hose coiled around the lamp at the rear of the locomotive is used to extract water for the boiler from streams or shell holes.

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