Summary

Printed silk cloth with fringe, featuring images of pyramids, a camel, crossed flags of the UK and Egypt. Portraits of rulers of Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Belgium and Egypt are included.

The textile was acquired with a memoir about the World War I service of Lieut. Jack H. Pike (ST 037458). Pike was a married grazier from Mansfield, Victoria, who enlisted on 9 June 1917, at the age of 27. He was placed in the 8th Battalion, 25th Reinforcements, as a 2nd Lieutenant, and left Melbourne on the Nestor on 11 November 1917. He arrived in Egypt in December, then was shipped to England in January 1918. After recovering from influenza he arrived in France in late June 1918. In July he became a lieutenant, and was wounded in August but not hospitalized. Pike survived the war, but was then treated for chancroid (a venereal disease) caught in France in January 1919. He arrived back in Australia in June that year, and died the following year.

Physical Description

Silk square with pictures of pyramids, a camel, crossed flags of the UK and Egypt. Portraits of rulers of Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Belgium and Egypt.

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