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looks like the bass palyer in a skiffle band circa 1973

"bad character." the monobrow seldom lies. notice how many of these guys had their mouths slacked open...very "'well, iss loike 'iss, innit?"

Notice none of them are over 5'8 either

Anyone know what "build: prop." is short for? One man is listed as "slim" but most of them are "prop."

Maybe it's short for "Proper" i.e. normal?

The side picture of this guy reminds me of some Chicago gangster of the 30's, one of Al Capone's associates perhaps.

I suspect that's what he's trying to look like. Wonder who he nicked the flash hat from? It certainly doesn't go with the "no tie, no collar" look.

It's likely that the hat was provided by the Police in order to have a mugshot with the hat for recognition purposes.

Aberdeen Journal Saturday 02nd April 1932 Evidence based entirely on the discovery of finger-prints and heel marks found on premises which had been entered, was given at Newcastle yesterday, when Charles Ormston (24) labourer, was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour, charged with office-breaking and larceny.

CHARLES ORMSTON Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Thursday 23rd December 1926 A NEWCASTLE CHASE In the early hours of yesterday morning there was an exciting chase through some of the main streets of Newcastle. The sequel was heard at the police court a few hours later, when Charles Ormston (18), was charged with having attempted to break into the Queen's Hall by kicking in the window of the base-ment. He was remanded in custody until Friday. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Thursday 14th April 1927 ALLEGED SHOPBREAKERS AT NEWCASTLE A scramble over roofs after alleged shopbreakers was described at Newcastle Police Court yesterday, when Charles Galloway Ormston (21) and Nicholas O'Neil (19) were charged with having broken into the premises of Messrs. Freeman, Hardy, and Willis with intent to steal. Constable J. Wool said that at 11.25 on Tuesday night he heard breaking glass, ans signalling with his flash lamp to another constable to follow, he climed onto the roof of a garage and made his way over the roofs of adjoining buildings. Eventually he saw a face at a fanlight and he and Constable Johnson entered the premises and found the accused men hiding in the rafters. When he was taken into custody Ormston said. “I wish I had had my pea-shooter. I would have done you in.” The accused were remanded in custody for a week. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Saturday 23rd April 1927 Charles Galloway Ormston (19), miner pleaded guilty too a charge of breaking and entering, and was sent to Borstal for two years. Nicholas O'Neil (19) a deformed man, was jointly charged with Ormston, and admitting the offence, was bound over. Ring any alarm bells 25 years later dim-witted Derek Bentley was hanged on the 28th January 1953 for the murder of policeman Sidney Miles on the roof of a warehouse in Croydon Surrey. Everyone know that Bentley was not the Killer, and the real killer whose name is not worth a mention, believed he was somekind of Gangster, and if it had happened in 1927 he may will have been hanged himself.

"A French sailor-artist on the South Seas
Well-known for its Oceania collections, the Library contains a number of volumes on French Pacific expeditions, including official accounts of the voyages of Nicolas Baudin (1800–1804), Louis de Freycinet (1817–1820), Louis Isidore Duperrey (1822–1825) and Jules Dumont D’Urville (1826–1829). Unlike most of the drawings that accompany these accounts, however, the illustrations by Félix Marant-Boissauveur are not the work of an official artist. They are the everyday observations of a ship’s purser (treasurer), recording the people and landscapes of port cities visited by l’Héroïne.
We learn early on that its author is an anonymous low-ranking sailor (with the slight privilege of being the Lieutenant’s secretary). He describes his close friendship with the artist:

Being young and not having a very strong liking to sea life, the Purser (Mr Boissauveur) had only come on this voyage to satisfy his craving to visit distant countries, to study the customs of their inhabitants, and at the various ports of call, to make use of his skill in drawing and painting, at which he was very good. It was very fortunate for me that, when tired of walking unsteadily on the deck, I could go down into the ward room and make sketches together with this worthy friend. There I would forget I was on a ship, we chatted about our relations just as if we were two brothers."

www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/french-sailor-artist-south-seas

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