A Victorian battalion marching onto the Port Melbourne pier to embark for service overseas. The ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne
Accession Number C02489
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Port Melbourne
Date made 17 October 1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A Victorian battalion marching onto the Port Melbourne pier to embark for service overseas. The troopship at left is the Orient liner HMAT Orvieto (A3), the flagship of the Australian convoy.