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Frederick Edgar Robey [B 74945] • Photograph

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Summary

Half-plate glass negative portrait of Corporal Frederick Edgar Robey wearing World War One military uniform, including a braid or lanyard around one shoulder. Sections of the image have been damaged and worn away, including a large portion showing the lower face and neck. Written on original paper envelope: 'F.E. Robey. 1164. 1 Doz P.C. Bust. Wednesday'. Written on glass plate: '??? PC Wednesday no proof'.

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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

Robey, Frederick Edgar
Military uniforms.
Soldiers -- South Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- South Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian.

Catalogue record

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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. 1357 Corporal Edgar Frederick Robey worked as a farmer in Bayswater, Western Australia, before he enlisted with the AIF on 19 July 1915, aged 15. He served with the 32nd Battalion, D Company and embarked from Adelaide on board the HMAT A2 'Geelong' or the HMAT A13 'Katuna' in November 1915. He served on the Western Front and returned to Australia on 28 February 1919.

Digitisation information

Date

26/07/2016

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

10,015 x 13,417 pixels (134.4 MP)

Size

134.39 MB

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