Sunday 18 September 2016

Athol photos - Pets

We know the men enjoyed the company of pets in their camps. Famously a kangaroo was taken from Australia to the Mena camp in Egypt in 1915 (see https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C02588/). It appears that 'A' Flight at Sherika kept a fairly tame monkey and a dog.

These images are about 80mm x 60mm and quite faded. I do not know the people in the photos, nor the dates as there are no annotations on the reverse.


Dog on a box with the lower half of a monkey on top.


Monkey on the top of a bell tent.


It looks like there are some cartons of stores, some washing hanging out to dry and
a dog and monkey on that same box. 



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