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Thanks for those articles [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02]! Hmmm, the garden party must be this photograph then! What a find!

Thanks goes to beachcomber australia as well, for the Google maps view, it has to be the same location :)

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

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

I want to thank you for scanning and making these images available. they are wonderful to ponder, and it is a comfort to know they are available beyond the walls of the Library and the rooms and drawers where they are stabilized for posterity. it's surely a monumental task, and you are doing it right. -k

I like the two sailors just chillin’ in that lifeboat at the right.

I love ships named after landlocked places.

Well it is a state within a country that is not landlocked, and they do have representation in Congress which is the body that declares war. This is a nice photo!