Federation University Historical Collection
Photos, 71st Infantry Band Broadmeadows Camp
... ...percy shackles...The trombone player next to Percy Code is Jack Shackles....The trombone player next to Percy Code is Jack Shackles. 71st Infantry Band Broadmeadows Camp Photos ...
71st Infantry Band based at the Broadmeadows Camp 1917.
Percy Code write a piece of music called the 71st Infantry Quick March. (http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/31795246?selectedversion=NBD11485892)
The Ballarat phase of the battalion's history was formed as the Ballarat Volunteer Rifle Regiment on 9 August 1858 as a result of the Crimean War, coupled with the withdrawal of the British Army in 1857. In the years between its formation and the outbreak of War in 1914, the battalion went through a series of name changes as follows:
Victorian Colonial Defence Force:
1858 – Ballarat Volunteer Rifle Regiment
1860 – Ballarat Volunteer Rifle Rangers
1863 – Ballarat Volunteer Rangers
1884 – 3rd Battalion, Victorian Rifles
1892 – 1st Battalion, 3rd Victorian Regiment
1898 – 3rd Battalion, Victorian Infantry Brigade
Under the new Federal Government:
1901 – 3rd Battalion, Infantry Brigade
Australian Army:
1903 – 7th Australian Infantry Regiment
1908 – 1st Battalion, 7th Australian Infantry Regiment
1912 – 70th Infantry (Ballarat East, Geelong and Queenscliff)
1912 – 71st Infantry (Ballarat West, Warrnambool)
1914 – 70th Infantry (Ballarat Regiment) - in Ballarat East
1914 – 71st (City of Ballarat) Infantry – in Ballarat West.1 Large group photo of members of the band
.2 Photograph of part of the band
The soldier in the front holding the conductor's batton is Percy Code. The trombone player next to Percy Code is Jack Shackles. 71st Infantry Band (Percy Code Bandmaster) Broadmeadows Camp 191771st infantry band, broadmeadows camp, percy code, code, frank wright, brass band, percy shackles, shackles