Informal portrait of 193 Signaller James Pinkerton Campbell, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, ...

Place Approximate locations: At sea
Accession Number H03173
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made At sea
Date made 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

Informal portrait of 193 Signaller James Pinkerton Campbell, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, nursing his injured knee aboard the Allied transport ship Canada. Wounded at Gallipoli, Campbell recovered and remained in the Middle East. A professional photographer before the war, he was later made an honorary lieutenant and appointed an official photographer with the Australian War Records Section (AWRS) in Egypt.(Donor JP Campbell)