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Wrestling match, Mitcham Camp [B 76757] • Photograph

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Summary

Written on negative envelope: '294. "Cockfight", Mitcham Camp, April 1921'. Four trainees engaged in a "cockfight" wrestling match, fighting in teams of two, with one man holding holding his team mate on his back, 'piggy back' style. At the trainee camp held at Mitcham Camp in April 1921.

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Physical description

1 photograph : negative, black and white ; 8.5 x 6 cm

Dates / Publication details

1921

Collection

Part of Mitcham Collection

Subject

Wrestling -- South Australia.
Soldiers -- Recreation -- South Australia -- Mitcham.
Military camps -- South Australia -- Mitcham.
Military training camps -- South Australia -- Mitcham.
Mitcham Camp (Colonel Light Gardens, S.A.)

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General notes

One of a collection of 54 negatives relating to Adelaide and environs. See B 76711 - B 76764.

For details of the training camp at Mitcham see articles: 'A soldier's life: dusty days at Mitcham, a camp without a "clink"', in 'The Advertiser', Thursday 7 April 1921, page 7; and 'Home defenders: trainees' camp at Mitcham', in 'The Register', Friday 8 April 1921, page 8.

Digitisation information

Date

08/08/2018

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

7,241 x 10,610 pixels (76.8 MP)

Size

76.85 MB

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