• Title
  Harold Harden photograph album of 1914 War pictures of different types of transport, 1914-1919
• Creator
  Harold James Burdett Harden, 1890-1970
• Call number
  PXA 7165
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1914-1919
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  1001134
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  68 photographs (1 album) - black and white - 18 x 25.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Harold James Burdett Harden was an Air Mechanic 2nd Class, he enlisted on 3 November 1916, and served in the Australian Flying Corps in No 4 Squadron, and 1 and 2 Reinforcements (January 1917). He was living in Petersham prior to enrolling. He embarked on the 17th January 1917 on RMS Omrah from Melbourne and returned to Australia on 6 May 1919. He served on the Western Front and was injured and invalided to the Second Australian General Hospital. He received the British war medal and the Victory Medal.
  
  References:
  Library correspondence file
  https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R2021641/ [accessed on or before 11 February 2016]
  https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=126444 [accessed on or before 11 February 2016]
• Scope and Content
  Photograph album created by Harold Harden documenting his time as a mechanic in the Australian Flying Corps in World War One. Includes photographs of miltary personnel and transportation.
  
  Page 01: 5 photographs including: Transporting crash, Light Tender Crossley, Heavy Leyland Transport and Zepplin [Zeppelin]
  Page 02: 7 photographs depicting the streetscape of London, servicemen, and the 71st squadron including 17 transport drivers.
  Page 03: 6 photographs of aircraft, including the Sopwith, Pancake, and the 73rd transport.
  Page 04: 2 photographs, a studio portrait of a serviceman, and troops being farewelled on the R.M.S. Ormah
  Page 05: 5 photographs, servicemen in casual activities
  Page 06: 3 photographs including a postcard of ‘R.M.S. Kaisar-i-hind Peninsular Oriental Co – In storm weather’, a portrait of two servicemen stamped ‘Transport, 1st Wing Hd’qrts, A.F.C.’, and a military truck
  Page 07: 7 photographs, 6 of military aircraft, including Auro Crash!!!, Pancake, Sunbeam Crash and a zeppelin, and 1 of nurses at Scottish hospital
  Page 08: 3 photographs, 1 of off-duty servicemen who were known to Harold Harden, 1 of a ship, and 1 of troops boarding or disembarking a ship
  Page 09: 9 photographs of a landed aircraft
  Page 10: 3 photographs, 1 of active servicemen and 2 of aircrafts
  Page 11: Photograph of transport 1st wing H.Qs. A.F.C. in Tetbury, England, 1919
  Page 12: 4 photographs, studio portrait of a serviceman and 3 photos of an unidentified location
  Page 13: 5 photographs, mainly group portraits taken beside their transportation
  Page 14: 3 photographs, 1 of a gentleman on a bike in the snow, another of a man on a bed, and the third of an unidentified outdoor location
  Page 15: 5 photographs of unidentified nurses at an unidentified hospital
  
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Australia. Army. Australian Flying Corps
  
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Australian--Photographs.
  World War, 1914-1918--Nurses
  World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations.
  Transportation, Military.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8870144

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