What a great collection of uniforms and mustaches, 123 years ago
Members of the New South Wales Medical Staff Corps School of Instruction held on 5 & 6 May 1896 in Newcastle, Australia, showing an excellent cross-section of NSW militia uniforms in the last days of the 19th Century.
(Photo Australian Department of Defence through A.J. Withers)
They are, from the left (standing), NSW Artillery Corps Officer name unknown, Surgeon Captain J.L. Beeston, Surgeon Lieutenant F.H. Wrigley, Lieutenant G.R. Short of the NSW Artillery Corps; (seated), Surgeon Captain W. L’Estrange Eames, Surgeon Captain W.D.C. Williams and (rank not known) Nickson a surgeon in the NSW Naval Brigade. Captains Beeston and Williams and Lieutenant Short all served in the AIF, Short as a major and quartermaster in the 17th Battalion. Captain Eames commanded the Australian Voluntary Hospital (later known as No 32 Stationary Hospital) with the British Army in France.