Informal outdoors group portrait of several officers from the 10th Infantry Battalion at Mena Camp, Egypt on Christmas Day 1914. The officers are from left to right: Lieutenant Vernon Hermann Robley from Gilberton, South Australia; Captain Edward Castle Oldham from Hackney, South Australia (later Major) and killed in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915; Lieutenant Trevor Owen-Smythe from Adelaide, South Australia (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 6 May 1915); Captain George Ernest Redburg from Norwood, South Australia (later Major); Major Miles Fitzroy Beevor from Unley, South Australia (later Lieutenant Colonel) who is smoking a pipe; Captain Francis Maxwell de Frayer Lorenzo from Westbourne Park, South Australia (later Lieutenant Colonel and awarded DSO), the Adjutant, who also has a pipe in his mouth; Captain Ross Blyth Jacob from Kadina, South Australia (later Lieutenant Colonel) who is holding a cigarette in one hand and possibly a pair of binoculars in the other. Behind the men on the left is the tent occupied by the battalion's Regimental Medical Officer.