Black & White Photographic Postcard of Pte Albert George SCOTT 892 10th Light Horse on Horseback

c. 1915

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2017.15.17

Item type

Postcards

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 1

Material

Photo Paper

Width

84 mm

Height or length

135 mm

Weight

3 g

Inscriptions and markings

In the foreground a sign displays, “LT. R. CAPRON / Quartermaster". On rear "POST CARD. / CORRESPONENCE ADDRESS" with “With love from George / to / Mother” and in blue ink “Taken in Egypt” written in black and blue ink.

Contextual Information

This photographic postcard showing Pte Albert George SCOTT 892 10th Light Horse, on horseback in Egypt was sent to his mother in Boyanup, Western Australia. He left Fremantle on the 19/04/1915 and returned to Australia 22/01/1917, due to illness.

Keywords

10th Light Horse Regiment

First World War

Egypt

Place made

Egypt

Year

c. 1915

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Scientific or research significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Object’s condition or completeness

Well provenanced

Google Maps search term / URL

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Geotag

-35.030449, 117.912878

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