The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The steamship SS Moravian, its rigging dressed with signalling flags, thirty minutes before departing for the war in South Africa. The ship was transporting the second contingent of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps and the third draft of the New South Wales Lancers to their units already in action against the Boer forces then fighting in South Africa. Note the enthusiastic crowd farewelling the reinforcements (some have climbed onto the roof of the warehouse beside the wharf). (Donor Mr D. Edward )
The steamship SS Moravian being towed away from its berth by a small tugboat (far left). The ship was transporting the second contingent of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps and the third draft o
The steamship SS Warrigal carrying A Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, steaming through Sydney Harbour on its way to South Africa. Note the signalling flags flying from the ship's rigging and the t
Hyde Park, Sydney, NSW. c. 1900-01-16. Men of the second contingent of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps and the third draft of the New South Wales Lancers marching through crowds outside the Aus
PORTION OF THE PROCESSION AND THE CROWD OF ONLOOKERS ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEPARTURE OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES LANCERS DETACHMENT AND OTHER TROOPS FOR THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
MELBOURNE, VIC, 1899-10-28. A CROWD OF SPECTATORS ON THE WHARF FAREWELLING THE STEAMSHIP "MEDIC", AS IT DEPARTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA WITH THE 1ST VICTORIAN CONTINGENT TO THE BOER WAR. THE ORIGINAL PHOTOGR
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, 1900. AUSTRALIAN CAVALRY (NEW SOUTH WALES LANCERS) WITH BOER PRISONERS. (PHOTOGRAPHERS: UNDERWOOD AND UNDERWOOD. ORIGINALS IN AWM ARCHIVAL STORE)
