Front of handmade postcard made On Active Service out of cardboard, dated 22/5/16 , addressed in faded pencil to Mr Jack Forsyth , Wharf Manager , Outer Harbour ( Port Adelaide), South Australia . Listed on the back are names of Troop Mates with rank, number and their home-town , most from South Australia , some from Victoria and two from Liverpool, England. It would be interesting to know what happened to all these men .
It is from the estate of Arthur F. Forsyth , Matilda Street , Peterhead , Port Adelaide , who served in the Light Horse Brigade , survived the war, and was employed on the Port Adelaide waterfront .
Another interesting item is the 1917 postcard with the studio real photo (below ) taken in Cairo, Egypt , of a young Light Horseman , W.Woodrof , nicknamed Billy Bluegum after the Norman Lindsay koala bear . He is wearing a belt with a Turkish soldier's buckle , presumably a souvenir or a studio prop.The postcard was sent by Forsyth , with individual kisses to his wife and children in Matilda Street , with a request to respond with a long letter . More items of interest will be run from the Forsyth Collection .
