South Africa, 1901. Informal portrait of Private Tom Gooney, a volunteer to the Boer War serving ...

Place Africa: South Africa
Accession Number P01866.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Appleby, Hubert Oliver
Conflict South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

South Africa, 1901. Informal portrait of Private Tom Gooney, a volunteer to the Boer War serving with E Company, 5th Contingent, Victorian Mounted Rifles, standing beside some makeshift tents at a unit encampment in the countryside. Private Gooney is holding a rifle and has an ammunition belt slung across his chest. (Original print housed in P run in AWM Archive Store) (Donor M. Ewart)