A portrait of Lieutenant John Patrick Hamilton VC, a Roman Catholic. This photograph is a portion ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne
Accession Number P01383.015
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Company
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made c 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A portrait of Lieutenant John Patrick Hamilton VC, a Roman Catholic. This photograph is a portion of P01383.017, a framed composite photograph (photo-montage) presented to Lieutenant John Hamilton VC by Dr Mannix on the occasion of the Saint Patrick's Day celebrations in Melbourne, 17 March 1920. The composite photograph comprises portraits of fourteen Victoria Cross winners (ten Roman Catholics and four Protestants, all presumably with Irish backgrounds) with portraits of Dr Mannix and the entrepreneur John Wren in the centre. It was probably financed by John Wren.