Outdoor portrait of two members of the AIF Cricket Eleven, which toured the United Kingdom in ...

Accession Number D00684
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made May 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor portrait of two members of the AIF Cricket Eleven, which toured the United Kingdom in 1919. Identified on the left is Captain Carl Bleakley Willis, Dental Corps from Malvern Victoria, one of the team's best batsmen, and on the right is 9197 Corporal William Albert Stanley Oldfield, 15th Field Ambulance from Glebe Point, NSW, wicket-keeper and a reliable batsman. They are wearing the official team blazer with the AIF rising sun emblem on the pocket.

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