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Nine-inch gun, Queenscliff battery
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
gun emplacement; nine-inch Armstrong Rifle Muzzle Loading gun, mounted on an iron garrison carriage, at Fort, guarding the entrance to at The Rip, in the backgroundART19853
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Nordenfeldt Gun Battery
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
machine gun; series of drawings illustrating the enfeldt machine gun, top, l-r: half limber to transport ammunition, etc, enfeldt machine gun with ten barrels (ammunition hopper not in place), portrai...ART19854
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Our Contingent in the Soudan
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Maker: Unknown
In the early 1880s, an Egyptian regime in the Sudan, backed by the British, came under threat from rebellion. The British instructed the Egyptians to abandon the Sudan, and sent the popular General Ch...ART96130
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Private Barff Tucker
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Maker: Tucker, Frederick Balestine
Private Barff Tucker was born in Bathurst in 1861, and joined a bush contingent in 1885. On his departure for the Sudan, he was presented with a gold ring by members of his football club. He saw activ...ART50274
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Return of the New South Wales Contingent from the Sudan June 23 1885
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Maker: Hopkins, Livingston
Depicts the troop ship of the New South Wales Contingent, which had been involved in the War in Sudan returning to a wharf crowded with people to welcome them home. As it was raining heavily, the peop...ART50011
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Soudan War, 1885
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Maker: Unknown
Depicts soldiers from the British Empire engaged in battle with the followers of the Mahdi. The soldiers are behind wooden boxes with a small number of Mahdi attacking and some have been killed or inj...ART93108
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The departure of the Australian contingent for the Sudan
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Maker: Collingridge, Arthur
The dispatch of a small New South Wales military contingent to the Sudan War in March 1885 was an important moment for the British empire and its Australian colonies. For the first time, one of those ...ART16593
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The departure of the New South Wales troops
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton The Illustrated Australian News
Series of drawings published in the Illustrated Australian News, top l-r: officers in full and undress uniforms, stables for horses on board SS Australian, members of Artillery and Infantry, middle l-...ART19882
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The embarkation of the New South Wales troops for Suakin
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Maker: Hunt, C H Illustrated Sydney News Gibbs, Shallard, and Co.
Published by ' the Illustrated Sydney News' as a special colour supplement to mark the dispatch of the NSW Contingent from the Sudan on 3 March 1885. It was published in the Saturday 11 April 1885 iss...ART19692
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The embarkation of the NSW Troops for Suakim
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Maker: Hunt, C H Illustrated Sydney News Gibbs, Shallard, and Co.
Published by ' the Illustrated Sydney News' as a special colour supplement to mark the dispatch of the NSW Contingent from the Sudan on 3 March 1885. It was published in the Saturday 11 April 1885 iss...ART94387
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The last shot in the Sudan
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Maker: after Richard Caton-Woodville 'Supplement to the Illustrated London News', 20 June 1885
Depicts men preparing to fire at the unseen enemy in Sudan, with a dead Arab in foreground, and a marching column in distance, after a work by Richard Caton-Woodville (1856-1927). Caton-Woodville spen...ART50090
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The N.S. Wales Volunteer Light Horse - Drill on Moore Park
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Maker: Unknown Illustrated Sydney News Gibbs, Shallard, and Co.
This engraving published in the 'Illustrated Sydney News' Saturday 6 June 1885 shows the NSW Volunteer Light Horse performing a drill on Moore Park, Sydney. In early 1885 there was a concern that the ...ART94383
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The recent Suakim Expedition - Return of the NSW contingent to Sydney, June 23
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Maker: Unknown The Graphic Unknown
Four different drawings depicting various scenes during the arrival home of the NSW contingent of volunteers soldiers from the 1885 Sudan conflict. The first image, which is situated at the top left o...ART93408
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The return home of the Australian contingent from the Soudan
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Maker: Unknown
This page from London magazine 'The Graphic' is decorated with two engravings, both depicting members of the NSW contingent to the Sudan. The engravings were copied from photographs taken in Sydney b...ART94223
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The return home of the Australian contingent from the Soudan
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Maker: Unknown The Graphic Unknown
This page from London magazine 'The Graphic' is decorated with two engravings, both depicting members of the NSW contingent to the Sudan. The engravings were copied from photographs taken in Sydney ...ART93410
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The return of the Soudan contingent. Scene in Oxford Street
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Maker: Unknown Illustrated Sydney News Gibbs, Shallard, and Co.
Commissioned by the 'Illustrated Sydney News' as a special colour supplement to mark the return of the NSW Contingent from the Sudan on 23 June 1885. It was published in Saturday 4 July 1885 issue and...ART94384
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The roll-call
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Maker: Hopkins, Livingston The Bulletin
This image relates to Australia's contingent to the Sudan, who returned to Australia in 1885. The work parodies a painting by pre-eminent military artist Lady Elizabeth Butler, which was topical at th...ART19840
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The War in Soudan- with the Australian Contingent at Sydney (Paddington Barracks)
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Maker: Unknown
A hand coloured wood engraving related to Australia's involvement in the War in Sudan (1885), consisting of four scenes; 1) Early morning parade in Sydney of volunteer soldiers for the War in Sudan; 2...ART96044
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The war in the Soudan: Australian (New South Wales) infantry marching into camp at Souakim
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Maker: Paget, Sidney after Walter Paget Illustrated London News
This print depicts the Australian Sudan Contingent landing at Suakin near the Red Sea on the 29th of March 1885. The New South Wales Government had offered assistance to the British in the Egyptian Su...ART93925
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The War in the Soudan: Departure of the Australian Contingent from Sydney, NSW
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Maker: Unknown The Illustrated London News Unknown
Depicts both paddle-steamers and the two troopships, the 'Iberia' and the 'Australasia' packed with soldiers and civilians preparing to embark for the war in the Soudan. In the foreground, civilians ...ART93409