1st Troop, D Squadron 6th I.B. Lord Methuen's Escort, [1901]
1st Troop, D Squadron 6th I.B. Lord Methuen's Escort, [1901]
About this item
Full title
Date
[1901]
Call Numbers
SPG/176
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photographic print - 15 x 21 cm - silver gelatin
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Photograph shows group portrait of 20 soldiers in uniform wearing slouch hats and bandoliers, with rifles, lined up in three rows in front of a canvas roofed structure. A monkey is sitting in the foreground, tethered to a bayonet staked in to the ground.
Alternative Titles
Full title
1st Troop, D Squadron 6th I.B. Lord Methuen's Escort, [1901]
Notes
General note
Copy of photograph also in Australian War Memorial Collection ID number P01024.022
Description source
Title taken from caption on negative.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Harbeck Rare Books, 2015
Administrative / Biographical history
The New South Wales Imperial Bushmen was a mounted unit, consisting of six mounted rifle squadrons, and was one of a number of regiments raised in the Australian colonies in response to a request from the British government asking for ‘hardy bushmen’ who could ride, shoot, and navigate in the bush. During its time overseas, the regiment's name was...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SPG/176
Record Identifier
1l42kMN1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1l42kMN1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1000014
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