Informal group portrait of officers relaxing in the smoking room on board HMAS Australia. An ...

Accession Number EN0504
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal group portrait of officers relaxing in the smoking room on board HMAS Australia. An officer is lighting his pipe from a candle that is kept burning in the room to save matches. Identified left to right: Unidentified lieutenant of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve; Chaplain Rev Patrick Joseph Gibbons, smoking a pipe; unidentified; Lieutenant Commander Oliver Clive Warner, RN; unidentified; unidentified lieutenant of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve; Fleet Paymaster Richard Francis Wardroper, RAN, holding a liqueur glass.

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