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3rd Light Horse Regiment at Luxor. [SRG 435/82/10] • Photograph

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Summary

Group portrait of the 3rd Light Horse Regiment at the temple at Luxor, Egypt, standing among the pillars and statues, with a guide seated at the front. Ross Smith is standing second from the left in the gront row of the group in the middle, between the two pillars. He was a sergeant with the 3rd Light Horse at the time. See also PRG 18/24/21 for a description of the visit to Luxor in the letters of Ross Smith, dated 13 April 1915: "After an excellent lunch, we visited the Temple of Luxor, which is somewhat similar to Karnak, but dedicated to another God. We had a photo taken with 3 huge statues of Rameses II in the background. There were about 20 of the same size statues in the place...You will see me standing in the middle of the bottom row in the centre with Jack next on my left. Timmy is sitting down well on my right, and Geoff. is standing looking up with his cap off on my left. Harry Aldridge is sitting on the stone and laughing and almost in front of me".

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Physical description

Photograph (black and white print), 23.1 x 28.1 cm, on mount 25.7 x 31.2 cm.

Dates / Publication details

1915

Creator

Returned Services League of Australia

Collection

Part of RSL Collection

Subject

Ker, Robert Innes
Ker, William Innes
Australia. Army. Light Horse Regiment, 3rd.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian.
World War, 1914-1918 -- South Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Egypt -- Luxor.
Soldiers -- South Australia.
Military uniforms.

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Historical information

Robert Innes Ker, son of William Innes Ker, was born in Port Pirie, South Australia, in approximately 1895. He had one older brother, William Innes Ker, born approximately 1891. After their father William died at his home in Port Pirie on 19 December 1899, aged 32, Robert and William lived with relatives at Burta Station and Broken Hill, in New South Wales. William and Robert enlisted with the AIF and served overseas during the First World War. Both survived and returned to Australia. Robert married Dorothy Muriel Elliott in 1925, and they had three children: Alva Innes (1927-1993), Byron Innes (1928-), and Colleen Innes (1934-). They lived in Barmera, Berri, and Adelaide, and Robert worked on irrigation blocks.Byron joined the Royal Australian Navy and served as Leading Radio Electrical Mechanic on board the HMAS Tobruk during the Korean War. William married Evelyn Mary in New South Wales, and also had three children: Robert Innes Ker (1928-1949), Barry, and Jill [author Jill Ker Conway] (1934-). William and his family lived on a sheep station at Coorain, on the Western plains of New South Wales. William died of accidental drowining in New South Wales in 1944.

Digitisation information

Date

30/07/2018

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

9,023 x 7,310 pixels (66.0 MP)

Size

414.27 MB

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