EN0504 Accession Number: EN0504

Description

Informal group portrait of officers relaxing in the smoking room on board HMAS Australia. An officer is lighting his pipe from a candle that is kept burning in the room to save matches. Identified left to right: Unidentified lieutenant of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve; Chaplain Rev Patrick Joseph Gibbons, smoking a pipe; unidentified; Lieutenant Commander Oliver Clive Warner, RN; unidentified; unidentified lieutenant of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve; Fleet Paymaster Richard Francis Wardroper, RAN, holding a liqueur glass.

Details

Accession Number
EN0504
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
c 1918
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Lent by Associated News Agency
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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Accession EN0504

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