This set of 16 photographs were taken in mid-1990 during a family function held at the BBQ area of the Army Survey Regiment, Fortuna, Bendigo to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Australian Survey Corps. Traditionally the cutting of the cake was performed by the Unit commanding Officer and the youngest soldier. The name of the soldier assisting CO LTCOL Rene van den Tol is not known. This occasion was one of several events held in 1990 to commemorate the 75th anniversary. More information is provided in pages 147 and 150 of Valerie Lovejoy’s book 'Mapmakers of Fortuna – A history of the Army Survey Regiment’ ISBN: 0-646-42120-4. This is a set of 16 photographs of a family BBQ held at the Army Survey Regiment, Fortuna, Bendigo in mid-1990. The black and white photographs are on 35mm negative film and scanned at 2400 dpi. They are part of the Army Survey Regiment’s Collection. .1) & .2) - Photo, black & white, 1990. RA Svy 75th anniversary cake. .3) - Photo, black & white, 1990. L to R: SPR Caroline (Wyatt) Evans, SPR Sandra Dee, unidentified. .4) - Photo, black & white, 1990. L to R: unidentified, SPR Caroline (Wyatt) Evans, SPR Sandra Dee, remainder unidentified. .5) - Photo, black & white, 1990. L to R: CPL Di (Thomas) Sutar, SPR Caroline (Wyatt) Evans, unidentified. .6) - Photo, black & white, 1990. Cutting of the cake L to R: unidentified guests, CO LTCOL Rene van den Tol, unidentified. .7) - Photo, black & white, 1990. Cutting of the cake L to R: unidentified children, CO LTCOL Rene van den Tol, unidentified. Adults in background L to R: SPR Jeanette Drury-Lane, CPL Guenther Ebenwaldner, CPL Perry Burt, SPR Harris Lee, Karen Rothwell, SPR Neil Pedler, WO1 Allan Hancox, unidentified, SGT Wolfgang Thun, Joe Farrington. .8) - Photo, black & white, 1990. Cutting of the cake L to R: unidentified children, CO LTCOL Rene van den Tol, unidentified. Adults in background L to R: Karen Rothwell, SPR Neil Pedler, WO1 Allan Hancox, unidentified, SGT Wolfgang Thun, Joe Farrington, remainder unidentified. .9) - Photo, black & white, 1990. Cutting of the cake L to R: CO LTCOL Rene van den Tol, unidentified. Adults in background L to R: unidentified, SGT Wolfgang Thun, unidentified, PTE Gary Sievers, unidentified (x4), Pat Thwaites, remainder unidentified. .10) - Photo, black & white, 1990. Cutting of the cake L to R: CO LTCOL Rene van den Tol, unidentified. Adults in background L to R: unidentified, SGT Wolfgang Thun, PTE Gary Sievers, Joe Farrington, remainder unidentified. .11) - Photo, black & white, 1990. Cutting of the cake L to R: CO LTCOL Rene van den Tol, unidentified. Adults in background L to R: unidentified, WO1 Allan Hancox, Joe Farrington, PTE Gary Sievers. .12) - Photo, black & white, 1990. Cutting of the cake L to R: CO LTCOL Rene van den Tol, unidentified. Adults in background L to R: SGT Wolfgang Thun, unidentified, Joe Farrington, PTE Gary Sievers, remainder unidentified. .13) - Photo, black & white, 1990. BBQ L to R: MAJ Bob Williams, D-SVY COL Don Swiney MBE, unidentified. .14) - Photo, black & white, 1990. BBQ L to R: MAJ Peter Clark, WO1 Bill Jones, D-SVY COL Don Swiney MBE, unidentified. .15) - Photo, black & white, 1990. BBQ L to R: SPR Leigh Palfrey, unidentified. .16) - Photo, black & white, 1990. BBQ L to R: SGT Brian Paul, WO2 Rob Bogumil.There are no annotations.royal australian survey corps, rasvy, army survey regiment, army svy regt, fortuna

Sanders was a well-known local potter who worked for a time with David Boyd at the Martin Boyd Pottery, before returning to Melbourne where he had some association with Arthur Boyd, at the pottery in Murrumbeena. Sanders set up a studio in Eltham in the early 1950s and made the first of a series of architectural ceramic murals with painter and print maker Lawrence Daws in 1956. After returning from his travels in Europe to Australia in 1964, he began to work solely on creating ceramic murals. Murals created during the second half of the 1960s and into the 70s can/could previously be found at Southland Shopping Centre in Cheltenham, Melbourne (1968) - now demolished, the National Mutual Centre, Melbourne (1964-5) - now demolished, Dee Why Library, Sydney (1966), Woden Valley High School, ACT (1967), Tullamarine Airport, Melbourne (1969, 1970), Perth Concert Hall (1971) and University of Melbourne (1975) (with John Olsen). Sanders has worked with many of Australia’s pre-eminent painters and ceramicists including Fred Williams and John Olsen. In 2015 Nillumbik Shire Council will be installing a mural by Sanders, donated by Tom and his family before Tom passed away in 2009, for the redevelopment of the Eltham Town Square. During the 1970s Sanders produced a number of tapestry designs. Highly respected artist and one time local resident Hilary Jackman worked with Sanders developing and adapting his tile designs to be translated into silk tapestries that were made in Japanese Mills of Kawashima Orimono in Kyoto. They were displayed in the big Hall in the NGV. Sanders gave these tiles to Jackman as payment for her work. The tapestries are based on abstract designs and have a cotton warp, and silk weft. The tiles are similar to Sanders’ other mural works such as Wall of the Moon (Homage to Miro) and the mural located in the Perth Concert Hall. It’s clear that Sanders was inspired by the Spanish surrealist artist Joan Miro from the 1930s in both philosophy and style. Miro’s work is quite playful, symbolic and imaginative. Miro’s preference for painting like this was “to express contempt for conventional painting methods, which he saw was a way of supporting a bourgeois society”. He "famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favor of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.” Three earthenware tiles, embossed with an abstract linear design. N/A