| 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
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Pioneer
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.