The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Pontville, Tasmania. 1914-08. Members of the 9th Battery, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade (3FAB), move through the town on horseback as they return from shell firing practice. Third row from the front on the far left is 2058 Bombardier (later Air Commodore) Raymond James Brownell who commanded the Battery Staff. In the front row is possibly General Clarke and Colonel R. P. Smith. The unit were in training at Pontville for six weeks before embarkation for the Middle East on 1914-10-20. (Original housed in AWM Archive Store) (Donor R. Sandover)
Pontville, Tasmania. 1914-09. Group portrait of members of the Staff of the 9th Battery, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade (3FAB) with range finding instruments, signalling flags and heliographs. Back row,
Pontville, Tasmania. 1914-10-19. Members of the 9th Battery, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade (3FAB), formed up at the training camp where they had been for six weeks before embarkation for the Middle East
Mena, Egypt. 1915-01. 2058 Bombardier (later Air Commodore) Raymond James Brownell, 9th Battery, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade (3FAB), while seated on one of his camels, pulls another behind him to coll
Gallipoli. c. 1915-06. Exterior of the dugout shared by 2058 Bombardier (later Air Commodore) Raymond James Brownell and 2006 John (Jack) Garnet Knight of 9th Battery, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade (3FA
Mena, Egypt. 1915-01. 2058 Bombardier (later Air Commodore) Raymond James Brownell, 9th Battery, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade (3FAB), with a Zeiss range finder on a tripod. Brownell was using the new i
Informal portrait of 2058 Sergeant (later Air Commodore) Raymond James Brownell, 9th Battery, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade (3FAB), and his brother Captain Herbert Percival (Val) Brownell DSO, 7th Field
