[Andrew Hume's expedition of 1874 - photographic portraits]

PXB 427

fonds

1874-1875

Graphic Materials, Photographs

433060

Photographs - 3 cabinet photographs - 16.5 x 11 cm.

Irish-born Private Timothy O'Hea, of the 1st Batallion, Rifle Brigade (Prince Concert's Own), was awarded the British Victoria Cross War Medal No. 324 on 9 June 1866 for extinguishing a fire that threatened to ignite a munitions car at a train station in Danville, Quebec, Canada. -- Victoria Cross Reference, Online Feb. 2004.

1. [Andrew Hume - perished 8th Novr. 1874 aged abt. [i.e. about] 44 yrs] / G.A. Cockerton Photographer 324 George St., Sydney
2. [Lewis Thompson - Sole survivor (late 7th Hussars)] / Newman & Co. 392 George Street
3. [Timothy O'Hea V.C. - perished 7th Nov. 1874 (late Rifle Brigade 2nd Battalion)]

The photographs have been labelled "Hume's Expedition 1874" in black ink and identified below image in the same hand (possibly a former Mitchell Library Officer).
No.3 has been hand-coloured.
The research of Elizabeth Reid of Hope, B.C., a retired journalist, revealed that it was an imposter (his younger brother, John Heas, the usual family spelling of the time) who posed as Timothy O'Hea and died on the Hume Expedition of 1874. Timothy O'Hea died of tuberculosis in Ireland.
For copy of a photograph of Timothy O'Hea, kindly provided by National Archives of Canada, see notes filed at PXn 946.

Photographers' stamp on reverse of Nos. 1 and 2.
Handwritten on reverse of No.3 "Newman & Co / 392 George Street / Sydney"