Collection relating to Albert Bissett Amess

Place Oceania: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Duntroon
Accession Number P02241.006
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Amess, Albert Bissett
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Duntroon
Date made c December 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Interior of a Barracks Room for soldiers attending Officers' Training School, Royal Military College (RMC), Duntroon. Iron bedsteads stand in rows along the sides of the room while mounted above the beds are shelves on which the trainees' bags, hats, books, bottles and other items of personal equipment are neatly stored. Towels hang over the ends of the beds. Down the centre of the room stands a single line of fold-down desks hinged on either side of a central length of timber into which ashtrays or inkwells have been sunk. The room is currently occupied by the officer trainees or cadets of No. 3 Platoon. (Original print housed in AWM Archive Store)