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'A' Battery Field Artillery, New South Wales
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Maker: Roberts, Tom
Tom Roberts established "Curlew camp" at Sirius Cove in Mosman by the end of the 1890s. While camped there, concentrating on painting outdoors, Roberts was commissioned to paint three works depicting ...ART15032
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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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Captain Henry Hampson
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Maker: Clayton, H
Aged seventeen, Henry Hampson sailed from Britain to Australia, settling in South Australia. In 1887 he was appointed Adjutant to the First Battalion of Volunteers, promoted to Major in 1891. During ...ART50205
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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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Easter Manoeuvres: the Nelson bombarding Queenscliff
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Maker: Unknown Alfred May & Alfred Martin Ebsworth Australasian Sketcher
This print was published in the Melbourne based, Australasian Sketcher, on 22 April 1882. There are five images compiled into this print. The top left image is captioned 'Queenscliff Night Visions' ...ART50167
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Enrolling troops for South Africa in Sydney: the rush of applicants
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Maker: Leist, Fred Leist, Fred The Graphic
As part of the British Empire, the Australian Colonies offered troops for the war in South Africa. Australians served in contingents raised by the six colonies and from 1901, by the new Australian Com...ART96133
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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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Fortifications, South Head
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Maker: after Julian Rossi Ashton Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co
One of two drawings by Julian Ashton commissioned for 'the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia' (Volume II, p71) to illustrate the fortifications at South Head and the 25-ton gun at Middle Head, Sydney, ...ART94388
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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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HMCS Nelson in the Dock, Melbourne
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Newspaper supplement featuring the Alfred Graving Dock. This print was published in the Australasian Sketcher, Melbourne, 21 March 1874.ART50176
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HMS Royal Arthur
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Maker: Ashton, Julian Rossi
Pre Federation, pre-1901 and not BA, NZ, SU or CH; 1898; HMS Royal Arthur; vessles, fishing vessles.ART90990
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Infantryman of New South Wales 2nd Infantry Regiment
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Maker: Roberts, Tom
pre-Federation; 1896; New South 2nd Infantry Regiment; unidentified soldier wearing full dress uniform, pith helmet with NSW helmet plate, and carrying a Martini Henry single shot rifle 1875 model wit...ART19506
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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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Merchantmen and HMVS 'Nelson', Hobson's Bay, Williamstown
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Maker: Artist unknown
Group of colonial merchant vessels with HMVS 'Nelson' at Hobson's Bay, Williamstown, Victoria.ART91192
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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