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'A' Battery Field Artillery, New South Wales
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Maker: Roberts, Tom
Tom Roberts established "Curlew camp" at Sirius Cove in Mosman by the end of the 1890s. While camped there, concentrating on painting outdoors, Roberts was commissioned to paint three works depicting ...ART15032
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Australian Infantry on the march through the mountains
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Maker: Unknown Beckmann Bros, London
Men of NSW Contingent crossing mountains inland from Suakin. A mounted soldier can be seen in the lower right, while a train of soldiers, carts and horses can be seen in the distance. Note: colour of ...ART91489
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Australian (New South Wales) Infantry marching into camp at Souakim
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Maker: Unknown
Australian soldiers marching into camp at Souakim, being greeted and cheered by British-Indian troops. On the hills behind the soldiers tents can be seen, and British-Indian soldiers tend small fires ...ART91491
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Captain Henry Hampson
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Maker: Clayton, H
Aged seventeen, Henry Hampson sailed from Britain to Australia, settling in South Australia. In 1887 he was appointed Adjutant to the First Battalion of Volunteers, promoted to Major in 1891. During ...ART50205
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Defence works at the Heads
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton David Syme & Co. Illustrated Australian News
This wood engraving was published in The Illustrated Australian News, 13 May 1885 and shows colonial defence works being built at Queenscliff, Victoria. The vignettes illustrate the defences at the He...ART19852
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Departure of the New South Wales contingent from Sydney for the Soudan
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Maker: Unknown The Graphic
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...ART96131
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Departure of the New South Wales Contingent from Sydney for the Sudan
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Maker: Beckmann Bros, London Unknown
This Lithograph was adapted from a photograph held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales's collection of the NSW Contingent troops passing down Gresham Street in Sydney. They are ...ART91490
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Easter Manoeuvres: the Nelson bombarding Queenscliff
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Maker: Unknown Alfred May & Alfred Martin Ebsworth Australasian Sketcher
This print was published in the Melbourne based, Australasian Sketcher, on 22 April 1882. There are five images compiled into this print. The top left image is captioned 'Queenscliff Night Visions' ...ART50167
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Enrolling troops for South Africa in Sydney: the rush of applicants
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Maker: Leist, Fred Leist, Fred The Graphic
As part of the British Empire, the Australian Colonies offered troops for the war in South Africa. Australians served in contingents raised by the six colonies and from 1901, by the new Australian Com...ART96133
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Flag station
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Maker: Penry, J.
Men from the Victorian colonial infantry performing a signalling exercise with the Victorian colonial artillery. In the middle of the composition there is a signalling station with a semaphore flag an...ART94350
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Fortification at Swan Island
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Maker: Unknown The Illustrated Australian News
This wood engraving shows nine small images of the various views of the fortification at Swan Island. It is accompanied by an explanatory key: 1. View of Swan Island Battery from the sea. 2. Emplaceme...ART19870
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Fortifications, South Head
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Maker: after Julian Rossi Ashton Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co
One of two drawings by Julian Ashton commissioned for 'the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia' (Volume II, p71) to illustrate the fortifications at South Head and the 25-ton gun at Middle Head, Sydney, ...ART94388
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Gun-boat "Victoria" in the Government graving dock at Williamstown
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Maker: after Albert Charles Cooke Australasian Sketcher
The gun-boat "Victoria" in the Government graving dock at Williamstown being worked on. This image was published in The Australasian Sketcher, 25 August 1884, page 132ART19858
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His Excellency Governor Hampton presenting commissions to the officers of the West Australian Volunteers in front of the Government House at Perth, Western Australia
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Maker: Artist unknown The Illustrated London News
The West Australian Volunteers line up to receive commissions from the Governor in Perth, Western Australia. This image was based on a photograph of the event taken on 11 December 1863. The colonial o...ART19711
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HMCS Nelson in the Dock, Melbourne
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Newspaper supplement featuring the Alfred Graving Dock. This print was published in the Australasian Sketcher, Melbourne, 21 March 1874.ART50176
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HMS Royal Arthur
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Maker: Ashton, Julian Rossi
Pre Federation, pre-1901 and not BA, NZ, SU or CH; 1898; HMS Royal Arthur; vessles, fishing vessles.ART90990
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Infantryman of New South Wales 2nd Infantry Regiment
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Maker: Roberts, Tom
pre-Federation; 1896; New South 2nd Infantry Regiment; unidentified soldier wearing full dress uniform, pith helmet with NSW helmet plate, and carrying a Martini Henry single shot rifle 1875 model wit...ART19506
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Lieutenant-Colonel T. Price commanding Victoria Mounted Rifles
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Maker: after William H. Overend Illustrated London News
Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Price was appointed by the government in 1885 to raise, command and organise a colonial corps known as the Victorian Mounted Rifles. It numbered about 1000 and was purely volun...ART19560
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Merchantmen and HMVS 'Nelson', Hobson's Bay, Williamstown
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Maker: Artist unknown
Group of colonial merchant vessels with HMVS 'Nelson' at Hobson's Bay, Williamstown, Victoria.ART91192
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Mounted Infantry escorting the Governor to the Exhibition
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Maker: Unknown The Graphic
Two black and white engraved illustrations from the 'The Graphic', which was a British illustrated newspaper. The bottom engraving, which is the image of interest, and is titled 'Mounted Infantry esc...ART93406
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Mounted police and blacks
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Maker: Godfrey Charles Mundy Walton, W.L Bentley, Richard Hullmandel & Walton
The Slaughterhouse Creek massacre of 26 January 1838 occured when New South Wales Military Mounted Police, under the command of Major James Nunn, set out in response to violence on the Liverpool Plain...ART50023
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Naval illumination in Hobson's Bay
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This print featured on the front page of the Australasian Sketcher on 23 October 1880. It shows vessels letting off fireworks, while crowds are gathered along the shoreline to watch. Hobson's Bay in...ART50168
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Nordenfelt gun in action: a sketch on the detached squadron
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Maker: after Julian Rossi Ashton Australasian Sketcher
An nordenfelt gun on deck of a colonial ship is being operated by two sailors. One sailor is to pull the trigger and fire the gun, while the other is to operate a lever allowing the bullets to drop i...ART50170
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Not titled [training exercise: Victorian infantry look on as Victorian artillery shell a distant hill]
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Maker: Penry, J.
A military training exercise with the Victorian colonial infantry in the foreground and the Victorian colonial artillery in the distance. Live fire is depicted, as the artillery are shelling a distant...ART94351
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Not titled [training exercise: Victorian infantry manoeuvre]
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Maker: Penry, J.
A Victorian colonial infantry manoeuvre taking place around the homestead of the private property where the training exercises are taking place. Two infantry men on horses are running messages. One of...ART94353
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Not titled [training exercise: Victorian infantry moving through scrub]
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Maker: Penry, J.
Men from the Victorian colonial infantry moving through bushy scrub on an Australian property. One of a group of five works by J. Penry showing military training exercises held in Victoria in 1893. I...ART94349
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Not titled [training exercise: Victorian mounted riflemen]
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Maker: Penry, J.
A group of Victorian colonial mounted riflemen in a training exercise. They have demounted, their horses are to one side, and they are firing over a small hill. The Victorian mounted rifles went on to...ART94352
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On board the training ship Vernon, Sydney Harbour
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton
Scenes of life on board the training ship Vernon in Sydney harbour, NSW, where boys 'either as criminals or as neglected children' were housed, educated, and taught a trade until they were old enough ...ART50173
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Opening of the Victorian Parliament
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Maker: after Samuel Calvert Illustrated Adelaide Post
Mounted and foot troops drawn up outside Parliament House, for the arrival of the Governor (Sir Charles Hotham), for the opening of Parliament, civilians in foreground watching arrival.ART50188
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Our torpedo defences
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
'Our torpedo defences': an illustrated page from 'The Australasian Sketcher', Melbourne, 8 June 1878, p. 37. The page comprises seven images titled as follows: Half pound disc gun cotton; Exterior and...ART19851
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Our torpedo defences
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This wood engraving was published in The Australasian Sketcher, 1 June 1885, page 89. It shows the work of the colonial Torpedo group in laying down mines, minefields and the torpedo defences at Quee...ART19849
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Raising the 25-ton gun, Middle Harbour fortifications, Sydney
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton Australasian Sketcher
A group of men from the New South Wales Artillery pulling on a rope winch to lift a 25 ton gun onto a barge in Middle Harbour, Sydney. The gun was to be placed in defensive fortifications. There is a ...ART19848
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Renewing the boilers of HMVS 'Cerberus'
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Maker: Unknown The Illustrated Australian News
The boilers of the Cerberus were condemned by authorities as being unsafe in 1881. Repairs proved too difficult until engineers discovered a way to remove the funnel from the upper deck and therefore ...ART19857
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Saluting the squadron on board the Nelson; verso: page of newspaper text from 'The Australaisan Sketcher'
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This engraving is by an unknown artist after George Ashton. It shows a scene published in 'The Australasian Sketcher', Melbourne, 4 May 1885, depicting a gun crew on the frigate HMS 'Nelson' firing a ...ART50175
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Sergeant R.D. Fraser, Mounted Rifles
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Maker: Roberts, Tom
'Sergeant Fraser' was one of a suite of full length portraits which Roberts painted on small wooden panels in the 1890s. The subject for this work was Robert Donald Fraser who was a volunteer in the N...ART19505
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1st Battalion (West Melbourne) Victorian Infantry
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Maker: Bunnett, Henry
1880s; uniforms, rifle, horse; 1st Battalion (West ) n Infantry; foreground: marching soldier with rifle, background: mounted officer and Bugler on foot. Infantry uniforms were based on British models...ART19501
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1st Battalion (West Melbourne) Victorian Infantry
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Maker: Bunnett, Henry
Illustration of a member of the 1st Battalion (West Melbourne) Victorian Infantry.ART93361
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The Australian Naval Contingent for China: A Farewell Concert
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Maker: Leist, Fred The Graphic
The Boxer Uprising was a series of violent civil disturbances that took place in China between 1899 and 1901. The Uprising was an attempt by armed Chinese secret societies to resist the growing foreig...ART96126
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The Colonial rifle volunteers of Australia
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Maker: after William H. Overend Illustrated London News
Newspaper illustration from 'Illustrated London News', September 20, 1890 showing uniforms of Victorian Rangers and Cadets.ART50171
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The Colonial Rifle Volunteers of Australia
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Maker: Overend, William Overend, William Overend, William Illustrated London News
The Australian Colonial Military forces were maintained from December 1788 until March 1901 when they were transferred to Commonwealth government control, after Federation. Initially, they were compos...ART96128
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The defences of Port Phillip Head
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This scene, of coastal defences of Port Phillip heads, was printed in the Australasian Sketcher on 11 May 1878, page 25. In the foreground is the encampment, and gun positions, and in the background ...ART50194
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The Duke of Edinburgh in Australia: HMS Galatea entering between Sydney Heads and HMS Galatea arriving in Sydney
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Maker: Unknown The Graphic Unknown
The upper print on this double page spread depicts a flotilla of ships accompanying the Duke of Edinburgh's ship, the H.M.S. Galatea ('HMS Galatea entering between Sydney Heads') . The vessels are in ...ART93407
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The Eureka Stockade Ballarat
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Maker: after W T Smedley Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co
This engraving of the storming of the Eureka Stockade was published in 'the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia', as part of a section titled ' a historical sketch of Victoria' and depicts the attack by ...ART94391
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The Maplemore at sea
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Maker: Borstel, Reginald Arthur
A four-masted sailing ship, No 65, SS Maplemore is under full steam at sea. Smoke billows in a long stream from a red funnel with coloured upper stripes. The sky is cloud-covered; the ship carries an ...ART91798
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The Royal Military Tournament: the Victorian Horse Artillery in the Driving Competition - A sharp turn
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Maker: Unknown Unknown
Photogravure from the front page of 'The Graphic', 10 June, 1893 (unrelated text on verso). Caption reads: "The Australian Artillery were very successful during the Tournament. On one day both prizes ...ART94375
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The 77th Galop song-sheet cover
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Band of 77th Regiment playing in the Botanical Gardens to celebrate the end of the war in the Crimea (this Regiment was only in Australia from September 1857 to April 1858). A crowd of people are list...ART19818
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The torpedo accident Off Queenscliff
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Maker: Unknown Pearson's Monthly Illustrated Adelaide News
On the afternoon of 5 March 1881 while conducting torpedo experiments off the coast at Queenscliff, Victoria, five members of a boat crew from HMCSS Cerberus were accidentally killed. This print was r...ART50181
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The Victorian Naval Reserve
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Maker: after Tom Carrington Australasian Sketcher
Training exercises were an integral part of preparing for battle. This wood engraving, published in the Australasian Sketcher, 8 April 1882 p.105, shows colonial troops of the Victorian Naval Reserve ...ART19865
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The Victorian Navy
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton Illustrated Handbook of Victoria
A scene of five ships at sea that was published in the Illustrated Handbook of Victoria in 1886. From left to right, the vessels are: the ironclad monitor Cerberus (after conversion to a military mas...ART50191
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The volunteer encampment at Sunbury
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
A page from The Australasian Sketcher 14 April 1877 showing a general view of a military camp with tents in blocks at Sunbury. Mount Macedon and Camel's Hump in the background.ART19868