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Photograph P00629.011 Period 1910-1919EN ROUTE TO ENGLAND ABOARD THEMISTOCLES, 1911-05. CADETS OF THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH CORONATION CONTINGENT: THE SERGEANT'S MESS. (DONOR H.H. BELL)

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
En route to England aboard the Themistocles, the tallest and shortest cadets of the Australian Commonwealth Contingent stand on the deck in front of a lifeboat. Identified is Richard Watson Bickford (right) who subsequently served in the First and Second World Wars.
EN ROUTE TO ENGLAND ABOARD THEMISTOCLES, 1911-05. CADETS OF THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH CORONATION CONTINGENT: THE SERGEANT'S MESS. (DONOR H.H. BELL)

EN ROUTE TO ENGLAND ABOARD THE THEMISTOCLES, 1911-05. CADETS OF THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH CORONATION CONTINGENT CLEANING THEIR EQUIPMENT. (DONOR H.H. BELL)

EN ROUTE TO ENGLAND ABOARD THE THEMISTOCLES, 1911-05. CADETS OF THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH CORONATION CONTINGENT PREPARING FOR A KIT INSPECTION. (DONOR H.H. BELL)

'Me and the Major' cadet Richard Watson Bickford poses with Major G Watkin Wynn while travelling with the Coronation Contingent in 1911.

Studio portrait of 11909 Private Richard Watson Bickford, 9th Field Ambulance. Message on the back reads 'To Dear Mother, with love from Dick', and was sent from Salisbury England.

ENGLAND, 1911-08. MARCH PAST OF CADETS OF THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH CORONATION CONTINGENT IN FRONT OF LORD ROBERTS. (DONOR H.H. BELL)
