"The ambulance waggons of the N. Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade Ambulance. We call them 'delivery ...

Accession Number P11235.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Fiaschi, Piero Francis Bruno
Place made Egypt: Cairo, Heliopolis
Date made February 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

"The ambulance waggons of the N. Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade Ambulance. We call them 'delivery waggons'. The 1st LHFA can beat them to pieces believe me. Feb 15 Heliopolis."(Original inscription).
From a collection relating to the service of Captain Piero Fiaschi, Australian Army Medical Corps, (later Lieutenant-Colonel, OBE), serving with the 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance in Egypt and as Regimental Medical Officer with the 3rd Light Horse Regiment at Gallipoli. [See images P11235.001 to P11235.040]