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Private Albert Elsey [B 74972] • Photograph

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Summary

Half-plate glass negative of Private Albert Elsey wearing World War One military uniform including knee-high boots, slouch hat, and bandolier, standing in front of a background of a woodland path. Written on original paper envelope: 'A. Elsey 141 High St, Crawley, Sussex, Eng. 183. 1/2 Doz Cabs. Saturday'. See also B 74971.

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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

Elsey, Albert, 1897-
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. 997 Private Albert Elsey, born in Crawley, Sussex, England, in 1897. He worked as a baker and cinema operator in Crystal Brook, South Australia before he enlisted with the AIF in Oaklands, South Australia on 6 January 1915 aged 18. He served with the 9th Australian Light Horse, 6th Reinforcement, and embarked from Adelaide on board the HMAT 'Afric' on 26 May 1915. He served in Gallipoli and the Middle East, returning to Australia in November 1915 and was discharged in 1916 as medically unfit.

Digitisation information

Date

29/07/2016

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

9,697 x 13,137 pixels (127.4 MP)

Size

127.41 MB

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