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Searchlight Practice - USA Fleet from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded October 2013
USA Fleet visit, Circular Quay, Sydney illuminated from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded October 2013
USA Fleet illuminations in Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded October 2013
USA Fleet illuminations, Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded October 2013
USA Fleet illuminations in Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded October 2013
NSW greets USA - Sydney illuminations from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded October 2013
General Post Office and Martin Place in Sydney illuminated from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded October 2013
Sydney railway station illuminations USA Fleet visit from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded October 2013
Sydney Town Hall Illuminations during the USA Fleet visit from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded September 2013
Searchlight practice, USA Fleet from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded September 2013
'To the kinship of the Mayflower', Customs House, Sydney from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded September 2013
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Group of Royal Australian Navy sailors and civilians, July 1925
- Jeremy Davis said:
- Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
United States officers and sailors with riflemen assembled around a tally board
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covid convict said:
Here we see the victorious US Navy rifle team which competed in a match against teams from the National Rifle Association, the Citizen Forces, and the Royal Australian Navy, held at Long Bay rifle range, in Sydney, on 31st July, 1925...as you can see, they're using the Springfield M1903, which was the US service rifle from 1903 thru to WW2... If the SMH pic (link below) has the names/who's who correct they are (L-R) Back Row: Ensign Bartlett ; CGM Storm ; Sgt Peters ; Pte Kelber ; Pte Walker ; Maj-Gen C.H. Brand* Front Row: ? Brown ; QM Simmonds ; BMM Wolfe ; Seaman Moore Per the tally board their aggregates were: Peters 126 ; Wolfe 121 ; Walker 118 ; Moore 111 ; Storm 111 ; Simmonds 121 ; Kelber 126 ; Bartlett 124 TOTAL: 958 Per the Daily Telegraph, the Australian team aggregates were: NRA: 908 ; Citizen Forces: 869 ; RAN: 827... Chief Armorer Walker from the RAN shot the highest individual aggregate of 127 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245241808 - the Daily Telegraph, 1st August, 1925...the Daily Telegraph's report... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16219523/1220282 - SMH, 1st August, 1925...pic of the US team here with names. * at the time, Major-General Brand was NSW base commandant
Two US Navy warships possibly leaving Sydney Harbour, 6 August 1925
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beachcomber australia said:
Bradleys Head and the city behind from Steele Point (?) - I think this is the US Fleet leaving Sydney on 6 August 1925. Read all about it - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/16213029