Historical information
This set of 10 photographs of the Army Survey Regiment’s victorious rifle shooting team was taken outside the Tavern at Fortuna, Bendigo in c1979. The rifle shooting competition was the ‘Irwin Trophy for Shooting’, a contest with the British Army’s 42nd Engineer Regiment, the equivalent military geographic mapping unit at the time to the Army Survey Regiment. The bent .303 rifle seen in photo .3P was retrieved from the bottom of Fortuna’s lake when it was drained for restoration. It is believed an excavator drove over the rifle before it was retrieved.
Physical description
This set of 10 photographs of the Army Survey Regiment’s rifle shooting team was taken at Fortuna, Bendigo in c1979. The photographs were printed on photographic paper and are part of the Army Survey Regiment’s Collection. The 35mm positive photographic proofs were scanned at 600 dpi. Larger prints of .1P, .3P and .10P were scanned at 300 dpi.
.1) & 2) - Photo, black & white, c1979, Rifle Shooting Team - L to R: Warren ‘Waldo’ Shirley, John Waight, Peter Searle UK Exchange, CO LTCOL Bob Skitch, Jim Macdonald, John Harrison, Max Neil, Stan Vote.
.3) - Photo, black & white, c1979, Rifle Shooting Team - L to R: Stan Vote, John Harrison, Max Neil, Warren ‘Waldo’ Shirley, Jim Macdonald, John Waight.
.4) - Photo, black & white, c1979, Rifle Shooting Team - L to R: CO LTCOL Bob Skitch, Jim Macdonald, Stan Vote.
.5) - Photo, black & white, c1979, Rifle Shooting Team - L to R: John Waight, Warren ‘Waldo’ Shirley.
.6) - Photo, black & white, c1979, Rifle Shooting Team - L to R: Warren ‘Waldo’ Shirley, CO LTCOL Bob Skitch.
.7) - Photo, black & white, c1979, Rifle Shooting Team - L to R: CO LTCOL Bob Skitch, Warren ‘Waldo’ Shirley, Stan Vote, Jim Macdonald, Max Neil.
.8) - Photo, black & white, c1979, Rifle Shooting Team - L to R: Jim Macdonald, Max Neil, Stan Vote.
.9) - Photo, black & white, c1979, Rifle Shooting Team - L to R: CO LTCOL Bob Skitch, Peter Searle UK Exchange, Warren ‘Waldo’ Shirley.
.10) - Photo, black & white, c1979, Irwin Trophy for Shooting.
Inscriptions & markings
.1P to .10P –No personnel are identified.
