P02508.015 Accession Number: P02508.015

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Thursday Island, Qld. 1912. Group portrait of members of F Subsection, Royal Australian Garrison Artillery. Corporal John Edward Hendry is front row, second from left. The battery at Thursday Island consisted of two forts, Green Hill and Milman Hill. The Battery had three subsections, A, B and F and consisted of one captain, two lieutenants and forty eight NCOs and men of the Queensland Regiment of the Royal Australian Artillery with one lieutenant and twenty four men in Brisbane ready for relief. They are in tunics, trousers and British pattern leather belts. The artillery sergeant (third from left front row) has a dog resting between his feet. (Donor J. Hendry)

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Accession Number
P02508.015
Photographer
Alphonse Chargeois
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Format: 4x5"
Support: Polyester
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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