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A series of photographs relating to the Launceston Volunteer Artillery Company from its formation in June 1860, through its later designations as the No. 1. Battery (Launceston), Australian Field Artillery, the 15th Battery, 40th Battery, 9th Field Battery (AIF), 16th Field Battery, 17th Field Battery (AIF) and 6th Field Brigade, Australian Field Artillery.
Photograph
Members of the Launceston Volunteer Artillery pose with two Armstrong RBL 40 pounder guns during training exercises. Identified fifth from left, standing next to a sitting woman is Colonel George Thom...AWM2017.1184.4
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Defence works at the Heads
Art
Maker: George Rossi Ashton David Syme & Co. Illustrated Australian News
This wood engraving was published in The Illustrated Australian News, 13 May 1885 and shows colonial defence works being built at Queenscliff, Victoria. The vignettes illustrate the defences at the He...ART19852
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McCall, Alex (Bombardier)
Private Record
Maker: McCall, Alex
Letter written by Alex McCall from Landguard Fort in England on 31st July 1856, to his brother in Australia. Having recently returned from fighting at the Crimean Peninsula, McCall describes the livin...PR00757
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Nine-inch gun, Queenscliff battery
Art
Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
gun emplacement; nine-inch Armstrong Rifle Muzzle Loading gun, mounted on an iron garrison carriage, at Fort, guarding the entrance to at The Rip, in the backgroundART19853
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Port Jackson, from Dawes' Battery
Art
Maker: Prout, John Skinner
This well-known image by Prout was reproduced as plate 4 in his publication 'Sydney Illustrated', 1842-44. It depicts British soldiers and guns at the Dawes' Point Battery in Sydney. The Battery was c...ART94357
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Queenscliff Easter encampment (Target practice with the heavy guns)
Art
Maker: after Samuel Begg Illustrated Australian News
Queenscliff in Victoria was one of the main bases for artillery training for the Victorian colony. This work shows volunteers in the garrison artillery training with a rifled muzzle loading gun.ART19850
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Raising the 25-ton gun, Middle Harbour fortifications, Sydney
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton Australasian Sketcher
A group of men from the New South Wales Artillery pulling on a rope winch to lift a 25 ton gun onto a barge in Middle Harbour, Sydney. The gun was to be placed in defensive fortifications. There is a ...ART19848
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RML 64 pdr Mk I shell
Technology
Maker: Royal Laboratory Woolwich Arsenal
RML 64 pdr Mk I common shell. The shell features a rounded bottom with an 'R' and 'L' marking. Along the sides are three rows of five copper studs. Part of the shell has been painted grey. Faded text ...RELAWM19143
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Studio portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Harrap, Launceston Volunteer Artillery.
Photograph
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Harrap, Launceston Volunteer Artillery. Alfred Harrap (1820-1893), merchant, shipowner and leader of volunteers, was born in England. He first saw Van Diem...AWM2017.1184.2
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Studio portrait of Lieutenant Colonel George Edward Harrap, No.1 Tasmanian Battery, Australian Field Artillery, soon after the presentation of his Volunteer Officers’ Decoration.
Photograph
Maker: Humphrey & Co
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Colonel George Edward Harrap, No.1 Tasmanian Battery, Australian Field Artillery, soon after the presentation of his Volunteer Officers’ Decoration. This decoration was i...AWM2017.1184.3
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The defences of Port Phillip Head
Art
Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This scene, of coastal defences of Port Phillip heads, was printed in the Australasian Sketcher on 11 May 1878, page 25. In the foreground is the encampment, and gun positions, and in the background ...ART50194
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The opening of Prince's bridge in Melbourne
Art
Maker: Ham, Thomas
Depicts the 1850 opening ceremony of the Prince's Bridge over the Yarra River by the Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe (or Latrobe) as soldiers fire a salute. There is a large crowd of spec...ART19822
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The Queen's Review: Aldershot, 26 June 1899
Art
Maker: Maud, W T
1899; ceremonies; unidentified battery of Royal Horse Artillery galloping past Queen 's carriage during the Queen's Review at, New South Wales Lancers also took part in this reviewART19554
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The Queen's Review: Aldershot, 26 June 1899
Art
Maker: Maud, W T
Depicts a large number of civilians watching the Royal Horse Artillery passing the Queen 's carriage during the Queen's Review at Aldershot in the late 19th century. The New South Wales Lancers also t...ART19555
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The 77th Galop song-sheet cover
Art
Band of 77th Regiment playing in the Botanical Gardens to celebrate the end of the war in the Crimea (this Regiment was only in Australia from September 1857 to April 1858). A crowd of people are list...ART19818
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The Victorian Naval Reserve
Art
Maker: after Tom Carrington Australasian Sketcher
Training exercises were an integral part of preparing for battle. This wood engraving, published in the Australasian Sketcher, 8 April 1882 p.105, shows colonial troops of the Victorian Naval Reserve ...ART19865
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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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Volunteer sham fight in St Kilda Park
Art
Maker: after Samuel Calvert Illustrated Adelaide Post
Volunteers in night training exercise, ship has just fired a salvo and signal lights while rows of soldiers are firing out to sea, in centre middleground is a navigation beacon with coastal artillery ...ART50186