Photographic negatives of the 10th Battalion, AIF at Mena Camp, Egypt, 1914-1915 / photographed by V...
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Photographic negatives of the 10th Battalion, AIF at Mena Camp, Egypt, 1914-1915 / photographed by Victor Cromwell
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ON 585
Record identifier
YzOg4bB9
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https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YzOg4bB9
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Photographic negatives of the 10th Battalion, AIF at Mena Camp, Egypt, 1914-1915 / photographed by Victor Cromwell
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Photographic negatives of the 10th Battalion, AIF at Mena Camp, Egypt, 1914-1915 / photographed by Victor Cromwell
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1914-1915
Call Numbers
ON 585
Record Identifier
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
— Physical Description
Contents
75 negatives and 1 photograph (1 box) - black & white ; 4 x 6 cm - film
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright status : Out of copyright - created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Physical Access Conditions
Access to this pictures collection via appointment only. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian
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Digitised
Subjects
More information
— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
This collection of negatives were produced from a Kodak ‘vest-pocket’ camera, which was a common camera owned by many Australian troops who served in WWI.
Images include family members, three soldiers in Australia, possibly including Cromwell and sights around Mena Camp, Cairo, including photographs with Egyptian locals. There are images of...
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
Photographic negatives of the 10th Battalion, AIF at Mena Camp, Egypt, 1914-1915 / photographed by Victor Cromwell
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Creator
— NOTES
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 1292614
Signature / Inscriptions
Untitled.
Date note
Undated.
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Purchased from Michael Treloar Book Auction, Stuart Braga Collection, 2nd November 2014. Lot 408.
Administrative / Biographical history
Victor Cromwell had been a flour miller from Murray Bridge, South Australia prior to enlistment. He left Adelaide on the troopship, Ascanius on 20 October 1914 and arrived at Mena Camp on the outskirts of Cairo on 8 December 1914. The 10th Battalion left camp on 28 February 1915 and spent most of the following seven weeks, up until the landing at G...
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— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
ON 585
Record Identifier
YzOg4bB9
Permalink
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YzOg4bB9
— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
Reference code
1287035
