[DaveA]

Hi, Here is the photo. It shows the artillery arm badges clearly worn on the collar. The emu plume I am not sure about and I would presume that the hat badge was the 1913-1942 artillery badge as this would have matched the collars more that the RRAA cypher badge.But I am guessing. This photo was taken prior to Grandad leaving for Egypt in late 1915. From there he went to the Western Front in early 1916. He was in the 1 Div Field Artillery on 18pdr field guns. He was at Pozieres, The Somme, Bapaume, Albert, Ypres, Westhoek Ridge and Passchendaele where he copped a bad dose of mustard gas that put him out of the war until October 1918. The second photo shows him in early 1918 whilst at Sutton Veny in England recuperating. All these shots show Rising Suns. The next photo is his recruit course at Redbank near Brisbane in early 1915 and a shot of the 18 pdrs they trained on. The last photo shows his battery hauling a gun through the mud at Westhoek Ridge in late 1917. On the back of this photo is the comment "5hrs after this photo was taken there were only 5 of us left." He was repatriated in July 1919 as a TPI with gun deafness and poor eyesight because of the gas. He then drove the first car from Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast in 1919 where he set up the Soldiers Garage in Nambour and sold Plymouths, Dodges and Studebakers until he retired in 1966. He died in 1986 at the age of 92.