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A photograph album Including General Birdwood's Tour Of…
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Melbourne
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11-Dec-2017
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A photograph album Including General Birdwood's Tour Of Melbourne, c1920. Forty-eight (48) vintage silver gelatin photographs in a Kodak album annotated 'E.J. Pini, 31 Stead Street, South Melbourne' and dated '21.2.20' in ink on inside cover, most images captioned in ink on album pages, 7.7 x 10.3 cm (approx. each). E.J. Pini, was most likely an army associate of General Birdwood, as there are pictures of a military man with his family and pets, as well as Birdwood's tour of Melbourne. Also includes views of Panama and the Canal, Pitcairn Island (including one titled 'Boatload of internees from Pitcairn Island'), the American Boys Band at Caulfield, Caulfield Military Hospital and other areas of Victoria. William Birdwood (1865-1951) was a British army officer who commanded, ANZACs during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. He toured Australia and New Zealand in 1920, then sailed via Panama on his return to England.
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