456535
- TitleMesopotamia, World War I - photoprints, 1917-1919 / Keast Burke
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- Call numberPXA 1100/115-155
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1917-1919 - Type of material
- Reference code456535
- Physical DescriptionPhotographs - 41 silver gelatin photoprints - 16.5 x 21.5 cm. or smaller
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"After a year in the Signal Corps, Australian Military Forces, on 19 February 1917 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. Embarking for the Middle East in December, he served as a sapper with the Anzac Wireless Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. The unit operated at Baghdad, and in the field in Persia and on the Kurdistan frontier until November 1919. Burke gained an abiding interest in architecture and archeology. He enjoyed the 'grand fellowship' of army life and was to edit the unit history, 'the memory book of our great adventure', With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia (1927)." -- extract from the Eric Keast Burke biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online edition - Name
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