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The Nicolle family in the grounds of their house Esperanza at Primbee, near Wollongong, with Robert Barnet in uniform, 1916 / Robert Barnet
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Title:
The Nicolle family in the grounds of their house Esperanza at Primbee, near Wollongong, with Robert Barnet in uniform, 1916 / Robert Barnet
Creator:
Barnet, Robert James Macgregor, 1895-1916.
Date:
[1916]
Format:
1 photoprint : b & w ; 8.8 x 13.8 cm
Subject:
soldiers
family groups
Nicolle family.
Barnet, Robert James Macgregor, 1895-1916.
Nicolle, Eugene Henry Stanley, 1861-1929.
Nicolle, Catherine Charlotte, d. 1943.
Nicolle, Dorothy Jane Watt, 1893-1966.
Nicolle, Erica Catherine, 1894-1971.
Nicolle, Gwendoline Edith, 1895-1966.
Nicolle, Stanley Eugene Charles, 1901-1965.
Nicolle, Frank Herbert, 1904-1966.
Nicolle, Phyllis Edna, 1899-1969.
Series:
June Wallace papers
Description:
Robert James Macgregor Barnet enlisted in the AIF on 4 January 1916, giving his occupation as surveyor's assistant. After basic training he sailed for the front, disembarking at Marseilles in May 1916. He died of wounds accidentally recieved in the field in August 1916. He was buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery near Poperinge in Belgium.
This photograph, presumably taken shortly before he embarked, shows him surrounded by the family of Eugene Henry Stanley Nicolle, friends of the Barnet family at Wollongong.
Robert Barnet himself took the photograph using a small folding Kodak camera mounted on a tripod and fitted with an extension cord shutter release.
Provenance:
Estate of June Wallace (1917-2010)
Source:
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; June Wallace papers: JMW/22
Rights:
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Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
41352
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