Robert Douglas Caldwell, pictorial and realia material, 1917-1919

PXE 1579
R 2115

fonds

1917-1919

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Prints, Badges

903619

1 photograph - sepia - mounted to card
1 badge - ribbons
1 photomechanical print - photolithograph
5 negatives - film - 35 mm

Robert Douglas Caldwell, a jackeroo of Burwood, Sydney enlisted 19 Feb. 1917 aged 19 and served with the 2nd Battalion, 25th Reinforcement. He embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board H.M.A.T. A20 Hororata, 14 June 1917 and returned to Australia Jan. 1919

Portrait of Robert Caldwell in army uniform, below image is his battalion colour patch.

On reverse is a print of Gallipoli Harbour, with ships anchored. "Barbed wire on jagged metal poles laid by the Turks all along the cliff tops".

Circular brass badge surmounted by a King's crown. In the centre is the AIF rising sun emblem surrounded by the text 'ISSUED BY DEPT. OF DEFENCE RETURNED FROM ACTIVE SERVICE'. The reverse has been impressed with "R. D. Caldwell, York Street, Epping ... 89496". This badge was issued to all soldiers and nurses who returned to Australia from active service and were discharged. Accompanied with 2 coloured ribbons.

Negatives of photograph and reverse.

Forms part of MLMSS 5389

Access via appointment - R 2115

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Robert Douglas Caldwell

Negatives copied by Images Now, December 1990
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.7011 as part of the eRecords Project 2013-14

Photograph - at top "Robert Douglas Caldwell - 1917", on reverse "Barbed wire on jagged metal poles laid by the Turks all along the cliff tops", badge - on reverse "R D Caldwell, York Street, Epping ... 89496"

Good condition