In the many First World War photographs and postcards sent back to his family in Matilda Street, Peterhead , Port Adelaide , by Light Horseman Arthur Forsyth, was the puzzling above shot which appears to show soldiers clustered about a disabled tank , without any details on the back . There is a stand out white horse which surely would not have been used on the battlefield as it would make a prime target.
On closer examination , could the animal have been painted on the tank ? Perhaps an example of Aussie disrespectful humour, an attitude towards the innovative tank ? Not a white elephant ...an albino mule or donkey.
The following snapshot was identified as " one of our Whurleys " (sic). The dictionary describes a Wurley, also Wurlie, as an Aboriginal hut or shelter made of boughs, leaves and plaited grass. The caption gives the impression that a number of these structures were built by the soldiers to give them some degree of protection from the sun .
Those in the photograph are identified as" Dad" (Forsyth),standing, with pipe , James, Dobbie and , seems like , Leggett.
