Officers of the 13th Battalion playing polo, with donkeys for mounts. Identified left to right: ...

Accession Number C00569
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

Officers of the 13th Battalion playing polo, with donkeys for mounts. Identified left to right: Captain Francis Maxwell Barton, who was killed in action in France on 11 August 1916; Captain Douglas Gray Marks; Lieutenant Harold Freskin Murray; and Lieutenant John Keith Henderson, who was killed in action in France on 14 August 1916. (Lent by Lieutenant Colonel D G Marks DSO, MC, 13th Battalion.)