Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH WW1, FRAMED, Design Framing, Photo c.1917
Dark brown & silver colour timber frame with glass, silver grey coloured mount. Black & white formal group portrait photo of soldiers in uniform of the Reinf 7/38 Batt. AIF. Photo No 117 - 1917. Framed information, photocopy, handwritten in white ink on black paper below photo. Handwritten below photo:
“Reinf 7/38 Batt. AIF”
“Torpedoed on HMAS Ballarat on ANZAC Day 25.4.1917.
These troops when torpedoed upheld the best traditions of the race & their conduct was beyond praise.
These were the recipients of the warmest praise from His Majesty The King, General Birdwood
KCSI, KCMG, CB CIE DSO; and the Commonwealth High Commissioner, The Hon Andrew Fisher”
On printed white label:
ALBERT HENRY McKELVIE
Enlisted 13.1.1917 REO's
38th Ball AIF, No 3125, aged 21.
Embarked 19.2.1917.
WIA GSW to arm 5.6.1918.
Discharged from the AIF 21.2.1920.
McKELVIE is on the R, centre row.
Donated by the McKELVIE family.
Handwritten in black felt tip pen on back of frame:
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