Pioneer

Accession Number ART12428
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 47.5 x 20.8 x 17.6 cm
Object type Sculpture
Physical description bronze, green patina
Maker Gilbert, Charles Web
Bowles, Leslie
Gregory, E J
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 1920
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Bronze statue cast in 1936 from a mould made in 1922, of an Infantryman (also known as a pioneer), with rifle and spade. Pioneers were specialist infantrymen, who, as well as their ordinary infantry duties, built dugouts for Headquarters and the RAP, dug latrines, carried rations and ammunition forward, made targets for musketry training, dug graves for the battalion's dead and made crosses for their graves.