Historical information

Officers of the 8th Australian Imperial Force. Officers resting, while on manoeuvres, among them William T. Yates of Camperdown. Yates survived Gallipoli, went to France where he won a Distinguished Conduct Medal at Bullecourt and survived a bullet wound to the head in 1917. In 1919 he went to America to study agriculture prior to becoming a soldier settler in the Sunraysia region.
The rush for water the heat of the desert among parched troops on manoeuvres.

Inscriptions & markings

"Officers 'C' Coy (company) 8th A.I.F resting at Ismailia, Suez Canal"

Lieut (Lieutenant) Ebeling, Barrett, Yates, Feb 1915
Lieut Couve 8th A.I.F, Mena Camp, Cairo Egypt Jan 1915

On manoeuvres, Mena, Cairo, Egypt.
W.T.S dealing out to men who are rushing the water cart, Jan 1915