1287035
- TitlePhotographic negatives of the 10th Battalion, AIF at Mena Camp, Egypt, 1914-1915 / photographed by Victor Cromwell
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- Call numberON 585
- Level of descriptionfonds
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1914-1915 - Type of material
- Reference code1287035
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical Description75 negatives and 1 photograph (1 box) - film - black & white ; 4 x 6 cm
- 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 Gallipoli, on the Ionian coast off the Greek island of Lemnos.
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Library correspondence file. - Collection historyThe negatives were purchased from Victor Cromwell's family.
- Scope and ContentThis 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 the camp itself, the soldiers and their various activities, training exercises, a military funeral (where three members of the Battalion died of illness) and also a wedding. There are also some images taken on the island of Lemnos. - Access Conditions
Access via appointment - Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: Out of copyright - created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 1292614 - Signatures / Inscriptions
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