Troops marching down Sydney Road to Broadmeadows Camp, c1915.
Image S.9.1.2. Courtesy Moreland City Libraries.
I've written about the first men to leave for the front before. You can read about that here.
In the meantime, here's a photo from the Moreland City Libraries collection that I can't help feeling was taken around the same time (ie October 1914). The troops are walking along Sydney Road heading to Broadmeadows Camp. The camera man is facing south and there are lots of trees in the background, so I'm guessing that's Princes Park and we're somewhere in the vicinity of where Sydney Road widens to become Royal Parade. The other photos I've seen are further north along Sydney Road in Coburg, but this looks like Brunswick or even Carlton North to me.
Maybe someone reading this has some more information to add?
That looks like a highly identifiable house on the left there, if you could find some good pics of the area OR it would even be identifiable by the outline of that porch on the MMBW map as well. Sometimes the S&M specifies where hoardings with signage were located, too.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lenore. I did look at the hoardings but haven't had time to follow up on this one yet.
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