Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 Here's one of the trucks the ASC used in 1914..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 (edited) the same truck - 1919 "The car that took first prize"!! Edited December 8, 2005 by Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 my great grandfather's ASC workshop unit. He's sitting front row far left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 my Great Grandfather on the left with his mate (sitting) and 2 Belgian refugees. His mate on the right ended up adopting the young lad, but he suffered shell shock in France and gassed himself after he got back to England in my Greatgrandfathers workshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 (edited) The might of the BEF....the Army Service Corps, camped on Salisbury Plain, 1914. Guess who standing 2nd left Edited December 8, 2005 by Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 Last one from France....a bit sad this one. My Grandmother's cousin from Canada, even she couldnt remember his name. Anyway, he was killed in action on Armistice Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 (edited) here's some stuff from Palestine....Abbie Williams in the barley patch - drawing Turkish artillery fire. The caption on the back reads:"One of Abbie, his horse and mine in a big patch of barley. 8 miles east of Jordan. Jacko had just finished shelling us. Notice Abbie is under cover for observation behind the bush. We were drawing Jacko's shell fire to find out his strength and position of his guns. We attacked it about a week later. 1 killed. We had 9 horses hit and 1 killed & had 2 men wounded" Edited December 8, 2005 by Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 Compared to the technology of today....the caption reads "one of our fast fighting machines" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 Abbie in his gas mask in the desert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 This is a studio picture of Abbie's brother, who was in the 5th Light Horse with Abbie. This is Clifford Rupert Williams, a regimental farrier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 (edited) group shot of Abbie's machine gun section. A bunch of roughies all right! Edited December 8, 2005 by Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 Willie Markwell's grave after the battle of Beersheeba. There are Australian Eucalyptus trees planted by the grave site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 Officers of the 5th Light Horse Regiment in Palestine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 Turkish prisoners..."about 300 in this catch" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 something different...one of Abbies drawings, again on an envelope of a Turkish lancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 more to come later gents - i'm off home in a minute to try and beat the impending thunder storm!!cheers Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 "gun practice in the desert near Gaza" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 pic of a captured Turkish ambulance....very faded! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 "one of our planes crashed near Haffa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 not sure if you can make it out....this is one of a captured Turk, blindfolded, so he "can't make out the details of our camp" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 captured Turkish 5.9" gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 another batch of prisoners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 Clifford Rupert Williams and Friend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 This is Abbie's other brother, Herbert Leichhardt Williams, a private in the 31st Battalion AIF. Served in France and was severely wounded in the Battle of Amiens in 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 the grave of one of Abbie's mates from their home town of Beaudesert in Queensland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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