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From the British
publication, Navy & Army, Dec 5, 1914. |
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Orders of dress of the
Royal Australian Field Artillery , 3rd Military District Victoria 1914 |
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Corporal
Jack McBean, 1902, from South Australia
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Corporal (Cpl) Howard Francis Brown, No
3 Company Western Artillery, Victorian Military Forces.
Cpl Brown served in the Victorian Military Forces for seven years and
two months prior to his discharge in 1903 from the No.
5 Company Western Artillery. The
crossed flags badge containing the letter 'S' surmounted by a crown
indicates he is a 'Certified Army Signaller', a higher qualification
than a flag signaller, both qualifications which he received in 1896 and
1898 respectively. He is also wearing a crossed bugles badge on his
right sleeve above his corporal's chevrons. He is wearing the exploding
grenade badge on his collar and peakless forage cap. The highly polished
artillery buttons on his tunic show a field gun. An artillery corporal
was not known as a bombardier at this time.
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When
Colour Sergeant James Milton resigned from the Volunteers after 20 years
of service his fellow soldiers presented him with a life size portrait
of himself.
Sergeant Milton resplendent in his red
uniform of the 4th Regiment, New
South Wales Volunteer Infantry,
confidently engages the viewer. 'William Reay did not smooth his
features, or direct his noble gaze into the distance, as he might have
done with a general.
Instead, he created a strong portrait
of an ordinary man, probably as he wished to be seen. This painting
recorded a significant moment in Milton's life, and, obliquely, the
social position he occupied. To be depicted otherwise, perhaps as a
gentleman, would have been a wholly inappropriate attempt at social
elevation.' Richard Neville |
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| 2nd
New South Wales Infantry Regiment 1896 |
'Sergeant
Fraser' was one of a suite of full length portraits which Tom Roberts
painted on small wooden panels in the 1890's. The subject for this work
was Robert Donald Fraser who was a volunteer in the New
South Wales Mounted Rifles. He is
pictured wearing a slouch hat with a plume of rooster feathers, a khaki
tunic, breeches, leggings, boots and spurs, and carrying a Martini Henry
1875 model single shot rifle |
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| France,
1917-03-19. Full-length portrait of 468 Driver
William Alfred Keele, 14th Battalion, wearing greatcoat and scarf over
his uniform. Note his spurs. (Donor D. Douglas) |
A Light
Horseman off the WW1. Note the
leather leggings and bandolier. Note also the casual method of wearing
the the slouch hat. |
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- Sash as worn by the senior NCOs who
act as "Colour Sergeants" in the Colour Party who guard
the Colours on ceremonial parades.
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