Historical information

The photos in the collection relate to Thomas Robert JONES No 1982 AIF.
Refer Reg No 1377 for his service details.

Physical description

.1) - .22) Photos, black / white, showing men, training, the desert, Dardanelles, Turkish prisoners, leaving Egypt.
.23) - .44) Enlargement copies of photos .1) - .22), sepia.

Inscriptions & markings

Hand written on the rear in pen:
.1) Housing parade on the desert Egypt, bugler band 6th Battalion.
.2) Australian Field Artillery exercising horses near the pyramids.
.3) Some of the buglers of the 6th Battalion with their identification disks as eyeglasses.
.4) Serving out rations.
.5) 6th Battalion having a short halt during a route march on the desert.
.6) 18 Pounder Field Gun Australian Artillery.
.7) 'Come to the Cook House Door' 6th Battalion AIF.
.8) Lieut WATSON - Machine Gun being vaccinated by Lieut BALFE A Coy. Both these Officers are amongst the fallen.
.9) 6th Battalion AIF preparing to leave Mena Camp for the Dardanelles.
.10) A Turk captured on the morning of 25th April 1915 on board the troop ship Galeka.
.11) Wounded alongside of hospital ship Galeka.
.12) HMS Vengeance at the Dardanelles.
.13) Hospital ship Sudan off Gaba Tepe.
.14) Observation balloon off Cape Helles.
.15) British Destroyer off Cape Helles.
.16) Cape Helles, Dandanelles.
.17) Turkish prisoners captured at the Suez _ _ _ Barracks, Cairo.
.18) Turkish prisoners.
.19) <> Guides near pyramids Mena.
.20) Method of irrigation on the Nile, Egypt.
.21) Going on leave into Cairo.
.22) View of Cairo mosques in foreground taken from the Citadel.

.23) - .44) On rear in stamp form:
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