| Accession Number | ART03605.004.002 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | backing sheet: 45.5 x 28.8 cm; image: 17.6 x 15.6 cm |
| Object type | Work on paper |
| Physical description | pen and black ink on paper |
| Place made | United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London |
| Date made | 1916 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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Waiting for cook 'ouse
Sketchbook containing 56 pages of drawings from his service during the First World War
- Scrapbook leaf with four sketches attached and inscriptions
Description
Depicts a queue of mess orderlies in uniform lining up with tin buckets for their meat rations at the 'No. 1 Troopdeck Cookhouse', while another cook, wearing a cap, drags two large tubs of vegetables along the deck of the ship. Inscription to the left of the sketch reads: 'The Cook House was a temporary [structure?] on the main deck and the mess orderlies laid up and received the meat from the cook and vegetables from the gentleman with the tubs, under the supervision of the orderly officer of the day'. The exact location in which this drawing was executed is unknown, but it likely to have been at sea.