View of the Monastery of St Catherine, which lies at the foot of Jebel Musa or Mount Sinai, ...

Accession Number A02533
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt: Frontier, Sinai
Date made 25 December 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

View of the Monastery of St Catherine, which lies at the foot of Jebel Musa or Mount Sinai, showing three officers and two monks, the officers are from left to right; Major Oliver Hogue (Trooper Bluegum) of the 14th Australian Light Horse of Sydney NSW, who died of influenza on 3 March 1919 in London, Lieutenant James Paul Gee Cox of the 14th Australian Light Horse of Ashfield NSW, who died on 19 September 1918 and Lieutenant George Gowland MC, 14th Australian Light Horse Regiment.