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Lieutenant-Colonel T. Price commanding Victoria Mounted Rifles
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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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Not titled [training exercise: Victorian mounted riflemen]
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Maker: Penry, J.
A group of Victorian colonial mounted riflemen in a training exercise. They have demounted, their horses are to one side, and they are firing over a small hill. The Victorian mounted rifles went on to...ART94352
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Our torpedo defences
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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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1st Battalion (West Melbourne) Victorian Infantry
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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 Colonial Rifle Volunteers of Australia
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Maker: Overend, William Overend, William Overend, William Illustrated London News
The Australian Colonial Military forces were maintained from December 1788 until March 1901 when they were transferred to Commonwealth government control, after Federation. Initially, they were compos...ART96128
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The Victorian Naval Reserve
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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 Navy
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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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top image: Off to the squadron; bottom image: Men of War and Naval Reserve boat race, Hobson's Bay
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Maker: Unknown Illustrated Australian News
These two prints were published in the Australasian Sketcher on 22 February 1882, page 25. In the top image, titled 'Off to the squadron', civilians crowd on a wharf and watch as a woman is assisted t...ART50169
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Types of Tasmanian and New Zealand regiments
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Maker: Simkin, Richard Supplement to the Army and Navy Gazette, London, 1900
pre-Federation; and New Zealand; uniforms; series of drawings to illustrate uniforms and euqipment of l-r: Sergeant n Infantry (marching order), trooper Hawera Mounted Rifles NZ (review order), office...ART50215
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Victorian artillery
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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 Cadets
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Maker: after William H. Overend Illustrated London News
This engraving shows the Victorian Cadets in training. It was reproduced in the Illustrated London News, 20 September 1890 from an original drawing by William Overend and engraved by Peter Naumann.ART19562
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Victorian Mounted Rifles
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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'
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Maker: Artist unknown
View from the beach at Sandridge, Victoria, of two colonial warships, HMCS 'Victoria' and HMVS 'Nelson'.ART91193
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Works at the Fort, South Channel
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Maker: Artist unknown Australasian Sketcher
This colonial wood engraving published in the Australasian Sketcher, 27 March 1880 shows a small dinghy being rowed out to construction works of a fort in the middle of the channel.Other sailing vesse...ART19872