13th Battalion officers play a game of donkey polo with hockey sticks at a camp between Cairo and ...

Accession Number C00550
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt: North Egypt, Tel el Kebir
Date made March 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

13th Battalion officers play a game of donkey polo with hockey sticks at a camp between Cairo and the Suez Canal. Identified left to right: Captain Francis Maxwell Barton (later killed in action on 11 August 1916); Captain Phillips RMO; Major Edward Twynam; Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Edward Tilney DSO, VD.