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Signaller McBain [B 74952] • Photograph

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Summary

Half-plate glass negative portrait of Soldier McBain in World War One military uniform. He is wearing a peaked cap and a greatcoat with a cloth badge on the upper arm, featuring two crossed flags, possibly denoting a Regimental Signal Instructor. Written on original paper envelope: '3472. McBain. 1/2 doz P.Cards. Tues 1/2 Doc PC'. This is possibly No. 14814 Sapper John Stanley McBain of North Adelaide who worked as a plumber before enlisting on 19 January 1916, aged 26. He served with Divisional Signal Company 5, Reinforcement 4 and embarked from Adelaide on board the HMAT A53 'Itria' on 14 August 1916. He returned to AUstralia on 22 May 1919 and was awarded the Military Medal for courage and devotion to duty maintaining lines of communication on 25 April 1918.

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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

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.

Digitisation information

Date

29/07/2016

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

9,834 x 13,132 pixels (129.1 MP)

Size

129.16 MB

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