Hobart, Tasmania, 1900-03-05. Men and horses of the 2nd Contingent (Tasmanian Bushmen) being ...

Place Africa: South Africa
Accession Number A05081
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Woolloomooloo
Date made 28 February 1900
Conflict South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Hobart, Tasmania, 1900-03-05. Men and horses of the 2nd Contingent (Tasmanian Bushmen) being loaded aboard the troopship Atlantian (A64) at the Dunn Street Pier. Equipment and saddlery are stacked in a line at lower left. Other men, possibly from the NSW Citizens Bushman's contingent who boarded at Sydney on 28 Februay 1900, are watching from the ship's rail at upper right. (Photographer V Smith). Original negative held by AWM.