Summary

One of 139 photographs in an album from World War I likely to have been taken by Captain Edward Albert McKenna. The photographs include 7 Battalion training in Mena Camp, Egypt, and sight-seeing. Inside front cover of the album is the name Lillie Mckenna - possibly the owner and/or maker.

Image depicts men marking out a camp in Egypt - probably Mena Camp, as many other images in this album depict Mena Camp. The image identifies Sergeant Kent Hughes, labelled as a Rhodes Scholar. Hughes (later Sir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes) had been born to a privileged family in Melbourne and was in Oxford at the outbreak of war. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force as a private, and served in the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at Gallipoli before being wounded. He reached the rank of major and was awarded the Military Cross. He returned to Oxford after his discharge from the army, and went on to become an Olympian. He later served in World War II and spent three years as a prisoner of the Japanese. He died in 1970

Description of Content

Group of seven soldiers carrying pale-coloured stones. They are all wearing uniform shirts and trousers with hats; all but one have rolled up sleeves, and puttees on their legs. The final man is in a pale-coloured top and has bare feet. Tents are visible behind them; several soldiers and perhaps a local are also visible.

Physical Description

Black and white silver gelatin photographic print.

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