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British Pattern 1892 Cavalry Officer's Sword and Scabbard : Lieutenant F W Mann, Victorian Mounted Rifles
Technology
Maker: Wilkinson Sword Company
British Pattern 1892 Cavalry Officer's Sword and Scabbard. The hilt is sheet steel with rolled edges and engraved with a large crown above the letters 'VMR'. The grips are black checkered pressed-leat...REL35732
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Gold watch fob : Corporal J I Martin, Victorian Mounted Rifles, 1890
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Chisel engraved gold watch fob in the form of a shield superimposed by a saltire cross, with a circular disc with a raised rim superimposed on the cross. The shield and arms of the cross have been dec...REL28958
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Lieutenant-Colonel T. Price commanding Victoria Mounted Rifles
Art
Maker: after William H. Overend Illustrated London News
Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Price was appointed by the government in 1885 to raise, command and organise a colonial corps known as the Victorian Mounted Rifles. It numbered about 1000 and was purely volun...ART19560
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Menagerie race at the naval and military sports
Art
Maker: after Samuel Calvert Illustrated Australian News
Military volunteers with an assortment of animals at the start of the menagerie Race. The starter has a smoking pistol in his hand. This is an illustration from the Illustrated Australian News, 7 Nove...ART50183
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Our colonial defences: a company of the mounted rifles manoeuvring in Victoria
Art
Maker: Dadd, Frank
Depicts the company of VMR (Victorian Mounted Rifles) riding through bushland during training. It has been alleged that this work was based on a photograph sent to the Graphic by Lieutenant Colonel To...ART19712
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Our torpedo defences
Art
Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This wood engraving was published in The Australasian Sketcher, 1 June 1885, page 89. It shows the work of the colonial Torpedo group in laying down mines, minefields and the torpedo defences at Quee...ART19849
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Pattern 1853 Rifle, 3rd Model : New South Wales Military Forces
Technology
Pattern 1853 Rifle, 3rd Model. Lock marked Crown over VR and 1859 over Enfield. Butt marked with the Enfield factory roundel and stamped Arrow over GS. Opposite side THEATRE ROYAL MELBOURNE. Tang stam...REL/11003
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1888 Pattern Valise Equipment braces : British and colonial forces
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pair of buff leather 1888 Pattern Valise Equipment braces (as described in List of Changes 5696 29 June 1888 but shorter in length). The main strap of each brace measures 32 inches in length, widening...REL/18353.006
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1st Battalion (West Melbourne) Victorian Infantry
Art
Maker: Bunnett, Henry
1880s; uniforms, rifle, horse; 1st Battalion (West ) n Infantry; foreground: marching soldier with rifle, background: mounted officer and Bugler on foot. Infantry uniforms were based on British models...ART19501
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The Cerberus Turret-Ship
Art
Maker: Unknown Illustrated London News
HMVS Cerberus (Her Majesty's Victorian Ship) was a breastwork monitor that served in the Victorian Naval Forces, the Commonwealth Naval Forces (CNF), and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between 1871 a...ART19859
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The Victorian Navy
Art
Maker: George Rossi Ashton Illustrated Handbook of Victoria
A scene of five ships at sea that was published in the Illustrated Handbook of Victoria in 1886. From left to right, the vessels are: the ironclad monitor Cerberus (after conversion to a military mas...ART50191
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The Victorian Volunteer Waltz
Art
Maker: Troedel, Charles
Sheet music cover depicting four Volunteers in the uniforms of artillery, infantry, mounted staff officer and mounted rifles, with a gun. Music arranged by the Bandmaster (Mr Thomas Ellis) of the 1st ...ART19993
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Victorian artillery
Art
Maker: Bunnett, Henry
The artist's depiction of Victorian Field Artillery uniforms from the 1890s, showing an Officer of the Victorian artillery with a field gun in the background.ART19500
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Victorian Local Forces Long and Efficient Service Medal : Private T B Davison, 1880
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Silver medal with raised rim. Missing suspender. Obverse shows the badge of the Colony of Victoria with the motto 'AUT PACE. AUT BELLO. VICTORIA' and 'LOCAL FORCES VICTORIA'. Reverse reads 'FOR LONG ...REL29067
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Victorian Mounted Rifles
Art
Maker: Bunnett, Henry
Depicts a dismounted officer of the Victorian Mounted Rifles (VMR) (the uniform he is wearing is oversimplified and inaccurate), with the horse wearing military bridle pattern 1885 and officer's saddl...ART19543
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View from Sandridge of the 'Victoria' and HMVS 'Nelson'
Art
Maker: Artist unknown
View from the beach at Sandridge, Victoria, of two colonial warships, HMCS 'Victoria' and HMVS 'Nelson'.ART91193