The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Large group portrait of instructors and cadets at the Eastern Command Training School, gathered on the front steps of Studley Park, the building in which the school is housed. The instructors are the men wearing light uniforms in the front three rows. Note that only two of them have campaign ribbons. A number of the other men are wearing plumes in their slouch hats, indicating that they are members of Light Horse regiments. The five soldiers wearing pith helmets are members of the New South Wales Scottish Regiment.
Embroided colour patch of the Eastern Command Schools and Training Units. The square shaped colour patch consists of three vertically divided equal width bars. The bars are green, yellow and green.
Group portrait of Australian soldiers and officers. Identified is 55 Driver Ernest Sydney Pilcher, 3rd Field Ambulance Brigade, of Pentland, Qld, holding a violin made from a chocolate box. Pilcher l
SOUTH AFRICA. C. 1900. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS (PROBABLY TASMANIAN BUSHMEN) LOADING RAILWAY TRUCKS. MOST ARE WEARING SLOUCH HATS WITH PLUMES AND MANY, APPARENTLY FEELING THE COLD, ARE WEARING GREATCOATS.
Troopers of an Australian light Horse Regiment fitting their PH (Phenate Hexamine) helmets and tucking the ends into their collars as they participate in a gas drill in their camp lines. Pith helmets
South Africa, c. 1901. Australian troops with a 15 pound field gun. Five soldiers, four with slouch hats and one wearing a pith helmet, are arranged behind the 15 pounder. The men's tents are at rear.
Officers and soldiers gathered on the beach shortly after landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Many of the officers are wearing caps, which were later replaced by slouch hats.
Members of the 27th Reinforcements, 8th Light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Brigade prior to boarding HMAT Boorara (A42). Identified, front row, third from right, is: 1080 Private (Acting Corporal)
