The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Wooden handled clothes brush with ten longitudinal rows of black bristles. The wooden face of the brush has been engraved RDF.
Clothes brush used by Staff Sereant Major Robert Donald Fraser during his military service in the Boer War and afterwards until his death in 1907. He has engraved his initials into the wood of the handle. Robert Donald Fraser was born at Rose Valley, NSW, on 30 October 1873 and was a permanent soldier with the Australian Light Horse. He volunteered for service in South Africa and served with the 1 NSW Mounted Rifles as a Sergeant Major. Fraser was chosen for further military training after the war, and leaving his wife and young children in Australia in 1906, sailed to England but contracted pernicious anaemia in his last week of training and died on 8 June 1907 in London, aged 34 years.
COPIES OF DIARY AND LETTERS DETAILING HIS EXPERIENCES IN SOUTH AFRICA, INCLUDING NOTES ON DE WET, 1900; DIARY MAINTAINED DURING COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN ENGLAND 1906-1907 AND LATER NEWSCUTTINGS AND LE
Collection relating to Sergeant Major Robert Donald Fraser. Collection comprises diaries written by Fraser and letters to his wife Emma and their children. Other items in the collection include an il
Studio portrait of Robert Donald Fraser. Fraser was born at Rose Valley, NSW, on 30 October 1873 and was a permanent soldier with the Australian Light Horse. He served with the NSW Mounted Rifles as
Clothes Brush. The number '149', has been roughly carved into the top of the wooden handle. The top of the handle has a thin wooden cover that has been nailed with 8 small tacks to the base. One of th
Collection relating to Sergeant Major Robert Donald Fraser. Collection comprises diaries written by Fraser and letters to his wife Emma and their children. Other items in the collection include an il
'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
Studio portrait of Robert Donald Fraser. Fraser was born at Rose Valley, NSW, on 30 October 1873 and was a permanent soldier with the Australian Light Horse. He served with the NSW Mounted Rifles as
Wooden backed nail brush inset with coconut fibre bristles. The bristles are held in place by an upper aluminium plate attached through the wood by two aluminium rivets. The aluminium plate is engrave
Timber and bristle Royal Australian Air Force issue clothes brush. The brush has impressed markings 'D [broad arrow symbol] DZEV', and has the owner's details '118519 A PETER' scratched into its top s
