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Louis William Saler and family [B 74944] • Photograph

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Summary

Half-plate glass negative portrait of Trooper Louis William Saler in World War One military uniform, holding a cane in one hand, with his wife, Elsie Lily Saler (seated), who is wearing a long dress with a jacket and hat with floral decorations, and their daughter Violet, aged approximately 9 years, wearing a knee-length dress with lace cuffs and collar, knee-high socks and ribbons in her hair. They are posed in front of a woodland path background. Written on original paper envelope: 'Mrs Saler. Owen 2761'. Written on glass plate: '11 Cabs, Mrs Saley'.

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Physical description

1 photograph : glass, negative, black and white ; 16.5 x 12 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1915

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Saler, Louis William, 1881-1919
Saler, Elsie Lily, 1883-1980
Military uniforms.
Soldiers -- South Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- South Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian.

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General notes

One of a collection of glass plate negatives of South Australian soldiers, likely produced in metropolitan Adelaide from late 1914 to 1916. The majority of the images are single portraits and demonstrate a wide variety of uniforms, accoutrements and weapons, including swords and rifles with and without fixed bayonets, and various backdrops including outdoors, against buildings, and studio shots with a rural idyll woodland background. Included are portraits of men in twos or groups of three or more, some with wives and sometimes children and parents. Some portraits feature warhorses, senior offices, a quartermaster, and the crew of a West Spring Gun. The original paper envelopes of a number of the glass plates have survived, providing the name of the soldier along with details of the types and quantities of prints ordered. One of the envelopes gives details of the maker, Edwards and Errington of 52 Flinders Street, Adelaide. See B 74889-B 75011, B 75104.

Historical information

No. 331 Trooper Louis William Saler worked as a farrier before he enlisted with the AIF on 20 October 1914, aged 30. He served with the 9th Light Horse Regiment, B Squadron and embarked from Melbourne on board Transport A10 'Karroo' on 11 February 1915. He served in Gallipoli and returned to Australia on 20 January 1916 due to illness and was discharged on 30 June 1916 in consequence of medical unfitness. Louis William Saler was born in 1881 in Gawler, South Australia, to Harry Saler and Mary Curnow. In 1905 he married Elsie Lily Golding and they lived in Owen, South Australia, and had one surviving child, Violet Elsie Olive Mercy, born in 1906. Louis William Saler died on 16 May 1919 in Adelaide, aged 36. In 1923 Elsie remarried, to Charles Arthur Pelham Myers. Elsie died in 1980.

Digitisation information

Date

26/07/2016

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

9,509 x 13,150 pixels (125.0 MP)

Size

125.07 MB

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