CARGEEG, REGINALD IN HOSPITAL IN CAIRO
1915B/W Print. Two men are lying on their sides in metal hospital beds. Ëach is propped on pillows and one elbow and looking at a checkers' board on a small table between the beds. Reginald Cargeeg on the left, who has one leg in plaster, is smokimg a pipe and making a move on the board. The man, in the bed on the right is smoking a cigarette, and watching him. His legs are covered by a roughly folded blanket and bedcover. On another bedside table on the right are what appears to be a pack of cards or cigarette packet, tobacco tin and books. On the wall behind the beds are two notices in Arabic. Written across the bottom right corner is [Yola/ Cairo 1915]. The original was mounted on brown paper, and stuck on cardboard.
Reginald Ewbank Cargeeg was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1893. He was the son of Louisa and George Cargeeg. Went to Perth Boys and then Scotch College before studying agriculture at Roseworthy Agricultural College in South Australia.
The family lived in Adelaide Tce and later Stirling Street, Perth, before purchasing The Grange in 1907. They subsequently sold parts of the large property through 'Cargeeg Bros Real Estate' which was a business belonging to their sons Harold and Garfield and then in 1913, exchanged 11 acres for a farming property Parkfield for their sons Victor and Reginald.
They retained 3 blocks in Parry Street and built Keswick at 20 Parry Street, Claremont.
Reg joined active service on August 17, 1914. Part of the Gallipoli landing. Wounded in the thigh April 27, 1915 and declared unfit for further service. Hospitalised in Cairo.
As a woolclasser, he acted as an instructor at Technical schools in Melbourne and Fremantle, ran sheep on the family's property Parkfield and was a keen photographer.
He died on 23 February, 1921, during surgery in WA to treat the leg injury sustained at Gallipoli. His death is considered a WWI death. He is buried in Baptist section of Karrakatta Cemetery.
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