New South Wales officers and men of the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) and the Australian Naval Forces : portrait collection, 1919

series

May 1918-1919

Graphic Materials, Photographs

430630

Photographs - ca. 1673 copy photoprints and postcards - mainly 13 x 8 cm.

The Trustees of the Mitchell Library undertook to collect these portraits in May 1918. Relatives of soldiers were asked to forward photographs to the Crown Studios, Sydney for copying. A photocopy of the pamphlet produced by the Mitchell Library calling for this collection of photographs is available at PXn 648.
Completed examples of the form, (part of the pamphlet produced by the Mitchell Library calling for this collection of photographs to be donated by relatives of soldiers), are attached to the back of: P1/Schulstad, Aubrey Ernest, and, P1/Schulstad, Rudolph John

Most of the portraits (chiefly head and shoulders) are of soldiers who enlisted in 1918. There is a small number of officers and a few portraits not copied by Crown Studios, of soldiers killed in action or dying of wounds or disease.

This collection has been arranged by individual portraits. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each portrait from this collection record.

There are 1668 individual records for servicemen but some servicemen have two portraits in the collection
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material

Name, date of birth, enlistment date, trade or calling, birthplace, address prior to enlistment, rank, number and distinctions, casualties, next of kin and father's name inscribed on the standard form on the back of the photograph, transcribed by a librarian or the photographic studio from information supplied on the form sent in by the donor. Problems with the handwriting on the original form have led to errors in some of the transliterations.

Portraits of War: The Crown Studio Project - State Library of New South Wales (2014)