Image from the collection of 1606 Warrant Officer Class 1 Owen Kenneth Stewart, 3rd and 11th Field Artillery Brigades.

Accession Number P00117.073
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made At sea
Date made c November 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

Sergeant Owen Kenneth Stewart who was at the Base resting in the Convalescent Camp prior to returning to the Front sent this image to his mother in May 1915. This image shows B Subsection, 7th Battery Australian Field Artillery aboard the HMAT Rangatira (A22). W. P. Sparkes [who was also in hospital at the same time] is marked with an x (standing on the right towards the back), Stewart is in the centre (seated with a darker tunic); Second Lieutenant S F Hodgens is left of Stewart; Farrier Sergeant Felix Francis Howard is to the left of Hodgens.