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Australian Infantry on the march through the mountains
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Maker: Unknown Beckmann Bros, London
Men of NSW Contingent crossing mountains inland from Suakin. A mounted soldier can be seen in the lower right, while a train of soldiers, carts and horses can be seen in the distance. Note: colour of ...ART91489
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Australian (New South Wales) Infantry marching into camp at Souakim
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Maker: Unknown
Australian soldiers marching into camp at Souakim, being greeted and cheered by British-Indian troops. On the hills behind the soldiers tents can be seen, and British-Indian soldiers tend small fires ...ART91491
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Defence works at the Heads
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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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Departure of the New South Wales contingent from Sydney for the Soudan
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Maker: Unknown The Graphic
In the early 1880s, an Egyptian regime in the Sudan, backed by the British, came under threat from rebellion. The British instructed the Egyptians to abandon the Sudan, and sent the popular General Ch...ART96131
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Departure of the New South Wales Contingent from Sydney for the Sudan
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Maker: Beckmann Bros, London Unknown
This Lithograph was adapted from a photograph held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales's collection of the NSW Contingent troops passing down Gresham Street in Sydney. They are ...ART91490
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Flag station
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Maker: Penry, J.
Men from the Victorian colonial infantry performing a signalling exercise with the Victorian colonial artillery. In the middle of the composition there is a signalling station with a semaphore flag an...ART94350
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Fortification at Swan Island
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Maker: Unknown The Illustrated Australian News
This wood engraving shows nine small images of the various views of the fortification at Swan Island. It is accompanied by an explanatory key: 1. View of Swan Island Battery from the sea. 2. Emplaceme...ART19870
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Gun-boat "Victoria" in the Government graving dock at Williamstown
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Maker: after Albert Charles Cooke Australasian Sketcher
The gun-boat "Victoria" in the Government graving dock at Williamstown being worked on. This image was published in The Australasian Sketcher, 25 August 1884, page 132ART19858
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His Excellency Governor Hampton presenting commissions to the officers of the West Australian Volunteers in front of the Government House at Perth, Western Australia
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Maker: Artist unknown The Illustrated London News
The West Australian Volunteers line up to receive commissions from the Governor in Perth, Western Australia. This image was based on a photograph of the event taken on 11 December 1863. The colonial o...ART19711
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Mounted Infantry escorting the Governor to the Exhibition
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Maker: Unknown The Graphic
Two black and white engraved illustrations from the 'The Graphic', which was a British illustrated newspaper. The bottom engraving, which is the image of interest, and is titled 'Mounted Infantry esc...ART93406
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Nordenfelt gun in action: a sketch on the detached squadron
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Maker: after Julian Rossi Ashton Australasian Sketcher
An nordenfelt gun on deck of a colonial ship is being operated by two sailors. One sailor is to pull the trigger and fire the gun, while the other is to operate a lever allowing the bullets to drop i...ART50170
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Not titled [training exercise: Victorian infantry look on as Victorian artillery shell a distant hill]
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Maker: Penry, J.
A military training exercise with the Victorian colonial infantry in the foreground and the Victorian colonial artillery in the distance. Live fire is depicted, as the artillery are shelling a distant...ART94351
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Not titled [training exercise: Victorian infantry manoeuvre]
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Maker: Penry, J.
A Victorian colonial infantry manoeuvre taking place around the homestead of the private property where the training exercises are taking place. Two infantry men on horses are running messages. One of...ART94353
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Not titled [training exercise: Victorian infantry moving through scrub]
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Maker: Penry, J.
Men from the Victorian colonial infantry moving through bushy scrub on an Australian property. One of a group of five works by J. Penry showing military training exercises held in Victoria in 1893. I...ART94349
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On board the training ship Vernon, Sydney Harbour
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton
Scenes of life on board the training ship Vernon in Sydney harbour, NSW, where boys 'either as criminals or as neglected children' were housed, educated, and taught a trade until they were old enough ...ART50173
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Opening of the Victorian Parliament
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Maker: after Samuel Calvert Illustrated Adelaide Post
Mounted and foot troops drawn up outside Parliament House, for the arrival of the Governor (Sir Charles Hotham), for the opening of Parliament, civilians in foreground watching arrival.ART50188
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1st Battalion (West Melbourne) Victorian Infantry
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Maker: Bunnett, Henry
Illustration of a member of the 1st Battalion (West Melbourne) Victorian Infantry.ART93361
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The Australian Naval Contingent for China: A Farewell Concert
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Maker: Leist, Fred The Graphic
The Boxer Uprising was a series of violent civil disturbances that took place in China between 1899 and 1901. The Uprising was an attempt by armed Chinese secret societies to resist the growing foreig...ART96126
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The Colonial rifle volunteers of Australia
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Maker: after William H. Overend Illustrated London News
Newspaper illustration from 'Illustrated London News', September 20, 1890 showing uniforms of Victorian Rangers and Cadets.ART50171
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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