Studio portrait of Major Robert Gartside (born 1862). Gartside enlisted in the 4th Victorian ...

Accession Number P02275.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Verey A & Co
Place made Australia: Victoria, Castlemaine
Date made c 1903
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of Major Robert Gartside (born 1862). Gartside enlisted in the 4th Victorian Rifles in 1885, and was promoted to Major in 1903. Note the Queen's South African Medal with three clasps which he earned during the South African (Boer) War, while serving with the 3rd Imperial Australian Bushmen. He was wounded as a Lieutenant, while serving with the Bushmen, on 14 February 1901. He retired as a Major in 1903. He re-enlisted in 1914, and served as second in command of the 8th Battalion as an acting Lieutenant Colonel. He was killed in action at Gallipoli while leading a charge of the 7th battalion near Tommies' Trench at Cape Helles on 8 May 1915.

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