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Colonial and pre WW1 Uniforms of Australia, Page 5

A re-created Trooper's Uniform of the First Australian Horse

Trumpeter, Victorian Mounted Rifles c.1893 Roughrider, Victorian Artillery c.1894
Company Sergeant Major (CSM) Victorian Cadet Corps c.1895 Gunners Victorian Field Artillery c.1895
Certified Army Signaller Victorian Rangers c.1895 Trumpeter (Bugler) Victorian Cadet Corps c.1895
Officer, Victorian Engineers c.1897 Buglers, South Australian Infantry Regiment c.1897

Padre, NSW Infantry c.1897

Engineer Officer, NSW c.1898

Armourer Sergeant NSW Mounted Rifles c.1898 Lance Corporal University Rifles Victoria 1903/12
Derwent Regiment c.1903 Trooper, Australian Light Horse 1904
Bandsman Derwent Infantry Regiment c.1904 Tasmanian Artillery c.1906
Bandmaster 7 Australia Infantry Regiment (7AIR) c.1908 Non-commissioned Officer Australian Field Artillery c.1908
Farrier, Australian Army Service Corps c.1910 Signaller, Royal Australian Artillery c.1910
Private, Tasmanian Rangers c.1910 Corporal, Australian Army Medical Corps c.1912

Uniform images on this page are selected from

Australian Army Badges

Cloth Insignia of the Army in Australia, 1860-1993

by 

J K Cossum PO Box 223 Sandy Bay 7005 Tasmania

ISBN 0 949530 14 X

Signals Sergeant, AIF 1916
SYDNEY, NSW. 1899-11. Portrait of No. 894 Trooper Samuel Curtis Masters of the Bungendore (NSW) Troop of the 1st Australia Horse prior to his departure for South Africa where he served from 1899 to 1902. He was invalided back to Australia 1900-11-16. 

He served on a second occasion with the 2nd NSW Mounted Rifles and later with the 3rd NSW Imperial Bushmen. He is wearing his Regiment's distinctive Myrtle Green slouch hat and jacket. The sword was carried by Australian Cavalry during 1900-1901. (Donor; Country Collectables Museum)

Trooper Clarke of South Australia bound for South Africa during the Boer War.

The photo carries the number 25332 but it is unclear whether this is a photographers number or a number related to Clarke.

  • Trooper Herbert S Conrad of South Australia sailed with the 5th Contingent on SS Omaron (?) bound for South Africa, 9th Feb 1901.
Private Henry Thomas Clarke, New South Wales Volunteer Rifle Corps. Coloured facings on the grey uniform would have been either scarlet or green, depending on the company with which he served. 

His grey shako (hat) features a badge with the initials 'VR' in the centre. His accoutrements were of brown leather and he is armed with a Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle and bayonet.

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