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According to the link below, Georgina Pictet was "daughter of Captain Francis Pictet, of the Madras Native Infantry, and Rose Prinsep Mackenzie, Julia Margaret Cameron's niece." (You can just barely see a woman's neck and shoulder in the unfocused background, holding the little one.) The second of the wrecks was in November 1862, at Minicoy Reef off India (the SS Columbo, a ship of the Peninsular & Oriental Company), which dates this photo to 1863 (can't have been taken more than a year since that date). www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/.../ArchiveNo14_BabySectio... Searching around online, items related to the wreck of the Columbo seem to come up for auction occasionally. Fragments of a journal from the wreck are in the National Library of Australia: nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn786942

"The SS Colombo, which was built in 1853, was wrecked on the Minicoy Reef, Laccadive Islands (India) on November 19, 1862. The passengers, many of whom were Australian, and crew spent 11 days on Minicoy or Malacoy before being rescued and given onward passage in the ship 'Ottawa'. Minicoy is the largest island in the 36 islands group southwest of India in the Arabian Sea."

Apparently, hundreds of boxes of mail were rescued from the wreck and delivered in the UK with an understandable delay. Some examples of envelopes stamped "saved from the wreck of the Colombo" is here: www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/art/ormerod/env-save.jpg www.georgealevizos.com/scans/t70586.jpg www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/art/ormerod/ormerod.htm

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called La Belle Epoque ca.1890 - ca.1914 incl. ArtDeco and ArtNouveau, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

such a sad photo,i so hope the little one found a loving family to look after her.

Poor Tom :-( RIP

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called TOUR OF DUTY, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

If Intrested further in this Photo sugest you read this Book which I would Highly Recomend to those Intrested in Pets or Animals as much as Millitary History. Trackers - The Untold Story of Australian Dogs of War By Peter Harran Published by New Holland Australia in 2001. In the Apendix on the Dogs These are the Details on the Two in the Photographs - its Also Sad to Add that the Aust Army did Not return the Dogs that Survived back to Australia.... Also the 9 RAAF Chopper that went down were MIA's for quite a while in the case of the 2 Army members on board - he was also only recently returned to Australia after being Located in Vietnam. Justin Arived in Vietnam with 7 RAR. His Handler was Tom Blackhurst who was killed 17 Apr 1971 on his second tour of vietnam with the AATTV. Justin did not return with 7 RAR but was 'rotated' to 1 RAR and during that service time was diagnosed with 'shell shock' (War Neurosis) while under heavy fire at FSPB Coral which was under a major enemy attack in May 1968. He was once more rotated to 5 RAR where he served until Jan 1970 when he 'retired' from the army and was donated to a family in Saigon located at the chartered bank. Originally a stray he was recruited from a local pound inside Sydney NSW. Final fate is Unknown. Cassius Arived in Vietnam 1967 with 7 RAR as a former guide dog for the blind that failed to make the grade. Handler was Norm Cameron. Died due to heat exhaustion in vietnam while at Vung Tau before end of tour. All up 11 Black Labrador's Served in Vietnam as tracker dogs of which - 5 Retired in Vietnam (final fate is also unknown in most cases). 1 KIA 5 MIA or whereabouts unknown after handlers departed for australia. They were named Ceaser, Cassius, Janus, Julian, Juno, Justin, Marcian, Marcus, Milo, Tiber and Trajan. All had their own tags like their owner one example of which would be (War Dog) D6N03 (Ceaser). Stephen. Sydney Aust.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vietnam/Korea - Australia & Allies 1950/1970s, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Happy dogs!

Military Service Record: recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewIma...

Uau!!!! Que demais!!!

linda, linda demais

A pouco estava fazendo uma pesquisa sobre a fotógrafa e descobri, com surpresa, que era tia avó de Virginia Woolf. Será que uma das meninas seria ela? ^^ hihi *só brincando!*

We still have a lot of things to learn.

She is my very favorite photographer *