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Ernest Duncan Hewish [B 74981] • Photograph

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Summary

Half-plate glass negative portrait of Private Ernest Duncan Hewish, wearing World War One military uniform, including peaked cap, and a Red Cross patch on one arm, denoting a member of the Australian Army Medical Corps, standing in front of a background of a woodland path. Written on original paper envelope: 'E.D. Hewish. A.M.C. Nth Rd, Prospect. Dep 2/- 1906'.

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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

Hewish, Ernest Duncan, 1897-1917
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. 8282 Private Ernest Duncan Hewish, born in 1897 to Albert Hewish and wife Agnes (nee Condell) in Wallaroo, South Australia, trained as a cadet at the Chemical Laboratory, University of Adelaide and was studying pharmacy before he enlisted with the AIF on 31 May 1915 aged 18. He served with the 2nd Australian General Hospital Reinforcements and embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT A71 'Nestor' on 11 October 1915. He served in Egypt and on the Western Front, transferred to the 6th Field Ambulance in April 1917, and was killed in action in Ypres, Belgium on 4 October 1917, aged 19.

Digitisation information

Date

29/07/2016

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

9,659 x 13,062 pixels (126.2 MP)

Size

126.19 MB

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