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Ta madra ann!

ta madadh ann ... fosta

That would be a great image with modern gear ... amazing

And there’s a child, in a white hat, with her back to us, in the trap with the ladies!

... and a Dog and a Tobacco Factory but no Clock !

"Station Hospitals rendered general medical and surgical treatment for those areas where there were sufficient military populations to justify their maintenance, but not sufficient to justify General Hospitals. They were usually located at most Posts, Camps, and Stations for hospitalization of local personnel. In the Zone of Interior, such Hospitals were housed in buildings and received names, while in the Communications Zone, they were set up in tentage or improvised housing, and here they were numbered. Bed capacities varied from 25 to 900." Source: www.med-dept.com/articles/ww2-military-hospitals-general-...

This would have been around the time of the Battle of The Coral Sea when American Defence personnel were based in Brisbane and Townsville to help defend the Pacific Region.

I never did like Sergeants, nasty beggars always shouting and roaring and giving people a hard time! I think that the collective for that horrible rank should be a "Bellow" of Sergeants? Those daft looking Pillbox hats make them look different but I suspect that he is the man on the left front on the right side of the officer with the sword.

From this informative site , I found "a subtlety of sergeants at law", but I think that refers to some sort of a fancy lawyer, and there's nothing too subtle about these sergeants.

At a guess (and after a few mins of Google-fu), these chaps are from the Royal Horse Artillery.

Some have the Royal Artillery badge above their stripes. All are wearing snake belt buckles with blanco on the belt. Here are some earlier uniforms of the RA. www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyuniforms/britishartill... "The Sam Browne belt was ordered to be gradually introduced from 1898 to replace the white pouchbelt and binoculars case."

Is it me or do they all look very, very like one another around the facial area as in the image of one another? Look at their eyes!

This is gorgeous :-) Quirky and i like the smirk on the soldier...he's enjoying it :-)

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

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

Moments like this make life wonderful!

Aw! That is so endearing!