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Grand Volunteer Review on the Melbourne Racecourse
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Maker: after Samuel Calvert Illustrated Melbourne Post
Volunteers engaged in training manoeuvres as part of troop review, most wearing kepis, at left are two punts with White Ensign, crowds of civilians watching activities.ART50185
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Queenscliff Easter encampment (Target practice with the heavy guns)
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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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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 Volunteer encampment. Sketches of camp life.
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This wood engraving published in the Queensland edition of the Australasian Sketcher includes six vignettes of aspects of camp life at the Volunteer camp at Sunbury, Victoria, 12 May 1877.ART50178
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Volunteer encampment at Sunbury
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Maker: Unknown Illustrated Melbourne Post
Panoramic view of a volunteer Victorian military forces camp. Parading troops are visible in the right middle distance and civilians can be seen in the foreground watching the activity.ART50187
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Volunteer sham fight in St Kilda Park
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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
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With the Sudan Contingent on board the Australasian
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Depicts a page from 'The Australasian Sketcher' of 8 April 1885 with seven small vignettes showing various activities of the NSW Contingent on board ship bound for the Sudan. Between March- June 1885...ART50164