The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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-r: troops marching out from Barracks on way to embark, woman holding rifle while infantryman holds child, bottom l-r: woman farewelling ships, one of the troopships, surrounded by small craft, sailing through the Heads of Port Jackson.
Published in the Saturday 11 April 1885 issue of the 'Illustrated Sydney News'. This engraving shows a view of the NSW Contingent moving along George Street, between King and Market Streets, en route
pre-Federation; and; uniforms, personal equipment (military) animals, lance; drawings to illustrate uniforms and equipment of back row l-r: troopers of n Lancers and n Mounted Rifles in review order,
pre-Federation; and New Zealand; uniforms; series of drawings to illustrate uniforms and euqipment of l-r: Sergeant n Infantry (marching order), trooper Hawera Mounted Rifles NZ (review order), office
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
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
Depicts men of the NSW Contingent (infantry and artillery) boarding a ship (either SS Iberia or SS Australasian) to sail to Sudan with a crowd of civilians on wharf to see them off, after the artist G
