"Camp kitchen of 1st ALH Brigade Train. The camp oven consists of three trenches with holes for ...

Accession Number P11235.006
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Fiaschi, Piero Francis Bruno
Place made Egypt: Maadi
Date made January 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

"Camp kitchen of 1st ALH Brigade Train. The camp oven consists of three trenches with holes for the dixies leading up to the one chimney. Maadi Jan 1915. The chef is discussing the cooking with his native assistants." (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]