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60564
  • Title
    Kiama Army Camp
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ON 165/213-230
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    1916-1920
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    60564
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    Photographs - 8.5 x 14 cm.-12 x 16.5 cm. - 18 glass photonegatives
  • Scope and Content
    1. Mount Saddleback Kiama - 19. looking south from rural road with ground falling away foreground and mid-ground and with tall, remnant palms - ON 165/213
    2. Storm Bay Kiama - 14. Looking North across Bay from down low cliff on south side below Christ Church; lighthouse about centre, on skyline - ON 165/214
    3. Storm Bay Kiama - 14. Looking North across Bay from down low cliff on south side below Christ Church; lighthouse about centre, on skyline - ON 165/215
    4. From raised grounds above Black [cobble] Beach Kiama, east across bay and harbour to blue-metal loading plant; lighthouse on skyline to right of centre - ON 165/216
    5. Two swans on water seen through tangle of branches - ON 165/217
    6. Terralong Street - Kiama. Perhaps in wartime, ca.1916 : looking west, Palace Stores 1906 entrance LH and Tory's Hotel further down; blue-metal tram on right; only horse-drawn vehicles in street - ON 165/218
    7. South-westerly across town from Blowhole Point, post office about centre mid-ground; only horses visible on roads - ON 165/219
    8. Rural Kiama : southerly across floater-strewn pasture with 3 calves, blue-metal quarry to right, mid-ground : Saddleback Mount in background - ON 165/220
    9. Weatherboard building with brick (?) chimneys left back : group of miscellaneously dressed troops, with horse with drums of signallers (?) wire right foreground. Probably Signals Training School, to which Rex Hazlewood posted 1916, in Kiama showground - ON 165/221
    10. Group of miscellaneously dressed soldiers, front-row men with morse-code signalling box, graffiti on quarry (?) rock face behind - ON 165/222
    11. Three sergeants in entrance to tent, one doing morse on keyboard from book, the other two with books and pencils writing it down - ON 165/223
    12. Posed group of variously dressed soldiers, corporal at front with moustache and service ribbons. All have staves with signal flags rolled around them - ON 165/224
    13. Informally dressed group of soldiers sitting in front of tent with front and back flaps furled; folded blankets and gear in front on ground. Probably Kiama showground Signals Training School - ON 165/225
    14. Inspection party - corporal and lieutenant identifiable - passing solders standing behind their gear (on ground), tents behind. Probably Kiama Signals Training School - ON 165/226
    15. Troops on parade, with rolled great coats on them bandolier-fashion, buildings behind. Corrugated-iron buildings mid-ground and several large buildings in distance suggest Engineers' Depot at Moore Park, Sydney, before departure for Seymour camp - ON 165/227
    16. Troops with gear on open ground, numerous tents behind, buildings near and far suggest Sydney Showground; sign on top of shed reads 'Cooper & Robbins, Photographers/Phone 4685 City/City address 111 Elizabeth Street' - ON 165/228
    17. Sentries at gate, urban road; dressed-stone building just seen on right. Probably Engineers' Depot at Moore Park, Sydney, late 1916 - early 1917 - ON 165/229
    18. Bush scene : dense ground storey of ferns etcetera beneath tall, straight eucalyptus - ON 165/230

    A preliminary listing compiled by Mr Laurance Hazlewood is available in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at ON 165
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  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright
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