Group portrait of the 'Roughriders' of the Australian Army Service Corps (AASC), Remount Section. ...

Group portrait of the 'Roughriders' of the Australian Army Service Corps (AASC), Remount Section. The three soldiers of the back row are sitting or standing on a horse drawn General Service wagon and on the ground in front of the soldiers of the front row, are five stock saddles, not Army pattern saddles, that were used for horse breaking. With the exception of the two soldiers at either end of the middle row, who are wearing the 1912 pattern shirt and breeches, all the other soldiers are wearing the 1903-12 pattern uniform with the distinctive blue and white puggaree of the AASC on their hats. The soldier third from the left in the middle row, is 375 Driver (Dvr) Albert Franklin, an Indigenous serviceman from Yea, Victoria, who enlisted in the Permanent Military Forces of the Commonwealth (Remount Section, AASC) on 16 November 1914, a month before his 20th birthday. Dvr Franklin enlisted in the 1st Remount Unit of the AIF on 4 January 1918 and alocated the 1st Remount Unit service number 97. Dvr Franklin embarked from Melbourne on board the troopship Mahao on 16 January 1918 bound for Egypt. After a brief period of service overseas, Dvr Franklin was discharged from the AIF in Melbourne on 15 May 1918 and returned to the Permanent Military Forces of the Commonwealth (Remount Section, AASC) until he was discharged in Melbourne on 1 May 1919.

• Studio portrait of 375 Driver (Dvr) Albert Franklin, an Indigenous serviceman from Yea, Victoria, ...