Not forgotten at Christmas time, Egypt 1915

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Christmas billies, provided by the Australian Comforts Fund, being distributed to 1st Light Horse Regiment at the Brigade camp at the aerodrome, Heliopolis, Egypt, Christmas 1915.  Australian War Memorial Collection, JO2506.

Three local volunteers embarked with the 1 LHR: 

• Sidney Firth Lumb of Lorne St, Moonee Ponds
• Robert Hill Robertson of Marshall St, Moonee Ponds
• Thomas Charles Wheatley of Ardmillan Rd, Moonee Ponds

 Neither Thomas Wheatley nor Robert Robertson ever had Christmas with their families again.