An informal portrait of 4410203 Sergeant (Sgt) Michael (Mike) Coleridge, an Army Public Relations ...

Accession Number P09635.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province
Date made c 1967
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright unknown - orphaned work

Description

An informal portrait of 4410203 Sergeant (Sgt) Michael (Mike) Coleridge, an Army Public Relations photographer who served in Vietnam from 19 November 1966 to 21 November 1967, in a Vietnamese village looking at a magpie perched on his right arm. Sgt Coleridge has slung around his neck a classic Rolleiflex twin lens reflex (TLR) camera and a 35mm Nikon F series camera. Mike Coleridge is the photographer responsible for taking the photograph etched on the Vietnam Memorial on Anzac Parade, Canberra. This photograph was taken on 120 colour negative film with his Rolleiflex camera.

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