Item 01: Australia, England and France, wartime ca. 1916-1919 / photographed by Rex Hazlewood

ON 165/nos. 1113-1131

item

ca. 1916-1919

Graphic Materials, Photographs

1009171

19 negatives - glass - 18.5 cm. x 13.5 cm. or smaller

1. Signal Training School, Kiama Showground 1916, soldiers on parade in broad space to left of mostly conical tents; officers in front facing away from parade - ON 165/1113
2. Signal Training School, Kiama Showground 1916, soldiers at leisure in front of rows of conical tents, six Norfolk pines in background - ON 165/1114
3. The A.I.F. Light Horse Camp, Seymour, Vic., 1917. Written on negative: Seymour 14 - ON 165/1115
4. Returning Australian troops on board large ship, with woman on wharf looking towards ship, Melbourne, ca. 1919 - ON 165/1116
5. General shaking hand with soldier at top of steps, Buckingham Palace, with dignitaries including King George and Queen Mary and possibly Princess Royal - ON 165/1117
6. War damaged brick Romanesque church - ON 165/1118
7. Five men with shovels, possibly France and possibly British and French deserters repairing war damage - ON 165/1119
8. Military parade led by soldier, probably a Major, on horse outside British Houses of Parliament - ON 165/1120
9. Soldier on horse saluting military parade at Victory March, watched by large crowd, Queen’s Square and St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 1919 - ON 165/1121
10. Reims Cathedral showing bomb damage - ON 165/1122
11. Croix du Calvaire, Fontainebleau - ON 165/1123
12. Peace celebrations in Pentonville Road, Kings Cross London, showing Bravington jeweller shop and Australian soldier on highest lamp post, late May 1919 - ON 165/1124
13. Group of soldiers on board ship playing housie or bingo with sign “Proceeds from House and Bottles To Day for St. Dunstan’s Hospital” - ON 165/1125
14. Military band parade with flags and bunting, probably Epping - ON 165/1126
15-16. Group of men in uniform, one on crutches, sitting under tree with women and children, at unidentified location - ON 165/1127-1128
17. A major or colonel with children on steps at soldiers’ recreation canteen with sign “Canteen Reading Writing Games Billiard Rooms … All Soldiers are Welcome’ - ON 165/1129
18. Escapologist in handcuffs and chained waist with audience of soldiers in Medway Street, London, ca. 1919 - ON 165/1130
19. General talking to disabled ex-servicemen - ON 165/1131

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

These negatives were found in an unrelated collection. The box included 4 negatives belonging to the Rex Hazlewood collection at ON 165/275-299 which were listed as missing at acquisition. The remaining negatives are assumed to be by Rex Hazlewood