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Lake Littra police camp [B 61161] • Photograph

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Summary

LAKE LITTRA: Police camp at Lake Littra on the border of N.S.W. and South Australia. The border was closed in 1919 to prevent the transfer of influenza from the eastern states. A grandson of the policeman Ridge who is sitting in this photograph says that he was E. P. Ridge, not Charles Ridge. The police officer standing on the right with a cigarette in his mouth is Mounted Constable Patrick ('Paddy') Cashion (1895-1952). Patrick Cashion was a teacher before he joined the South Australian police force in 1917. He was born in Nackara in 1895 and moved to New South Wales in 1920. The seated police officer in the middle is Constable Edward Patrick Ridge (1889- 1968). The border crossing near Lake Littra was on the mail run between Renmark, South Australia, and Wentworth, New South Wales.

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Physical description

Photograph (b&w print); 6.9 cm x 8.8 cm

Dates / Publication details

1919

Collection

Part of Lake Littra Collection

Subject

Police -- South Australia -- Lake Littra

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Digitisation information

Date

23/08/2022

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

5,735 x 4,501 pixels (25.8 MP)

Size

77.46 MB

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