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Royal Commonwealth Society : Embarkation of horses for the Boer War from Australia, 1900

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<p style='text-align: justify;'>Collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 200 x 150 mm. With the exception of Y308M/45, they all show horses on the quayside, being embarked, and stabled on board ship, or views of the ships which transported them. Two of the prints (Y308M/2 and 45) have inscriptions in pencil on the backs, in the same handwriting, and some individuals are identified by writing on the actual prints (Y308M/18 and 27). There are no other captions, but some of the ships' names are visible. Twenty-two prints are numbered (Y308M/1, 4-9, 12, 13, 15, 18-24, 28, 31, 34, 42); eight have letters on the back (A-C, F-H, J-K); the remaining fifteen are not numbered. </p><p style='text-align: justify;'> The photographs probably represent departures from two ports in New South Wales, Sydney and Newcastle, the majority from Newcastle. F.H.H. (Y308M/18) may be Frank Henry Houlder, Managing Director of Houlder Brothers, based in London but with branches in Buenos Aires, Sydney, Liverpool, Glasgow, La Plata and Rosario. This firm had acted as brokers for the Remount Department 1900-1901, furnishing shipping from its own and its associated company, Houlder Line, for about a fifth of the remounts and acting as agents for chartering the remaining ships. Houlder visited Australia twice during the War. The facts that Y308M/1-3 and 7-9 show Houlder Ships, and that Houlder's is mentioned on the back of No. 45, suggest that the photos were taken by someone connected with that firm in Newcastle and Sydney between January and July 1900.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'> The arrangement is of pictures of individual ships (Y308M/1-12) followed by embarkation on Cornwall and other ships (Y308M/13-26), scenes on board, chiefly stabling (Y308M/27-38), corrals on Newcastle quayside (Y308M/39-44) and a scene in Sydney (Y308M/45).</p>

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Embarkation of horses for the Boer War from Australia, 1900 (Y308M)

Collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 200 x 150 mm. With the exception of Y308M/45, they all show horses on the quayside, being embarked, and stabled on board ship, or views of the ships which transported them. Two of the prints (Y308M/2 and 45) have inscriptions in pencil on the backs, in the same handwriting, and some individuals are identified by writing on the actual prints (Y308M/18 and 27). There are no other captions, but some of the ships' names are visible. Twenty-two prints are numbered (Y308M/1, 4-9, 12, 13, 15, 18-24, 28, 31, 34, 42); eight have letters on the back (A-C, F-H, J-K); the remaining fifteen are not numbered.

The photographs probably represent departures from two ports in New South Wales, Sydney and Newcastle, the majority from Newcastle. F.H.H. (Y308M/18) may be Frank Henry Houlder, Managing Director of Houlder Brothers, based in London but with branches in Buenos Aires, Sydney, Liverpool, Glasgow, La Plata and Rosario. This firm had acted as brokers for the Remount Department 1900-1901, furnishing shipping from its own and its associated company, Houlder Line, for about a fifth of the remounts and acting as agents for chartering the remaining ships. Houlder visited Australia twice during the War. The facts that Y308M/1-3 and 7-9 show Houlder Ships, and that Houlder's is mentioned on the back of No. 45, suggest that the photos were taken by someone connected with that firm in Newcastle and Sydney between January and July 1900.

The arrangement is of pictures of individual ships (Y308M/1-12) followed by embarkation on Cornwall and other ships (Y308M/13-26), scenes on board, chiefly stabling (Y308M/27-38), corrals on Newcastle quayside (Y308M/39-44) and a scene in Sydney (Y308M/45).

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  • Physical Location: Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library
  • Classmark: Y308M
  • Author(s): Unknown
  • Date of Creation: 1899-1901 (The dates are approximate.)
  • Extent: 45 images
  • Author(s) of the Record: RMR

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Y308M/1: Langton Grange (image 1, page 1) Y308M/2: Southern Cross (image 2, page 2) Y308M/3: ? Southern Cross (image 3, page 3) Y308M/4: Beira (image 4, page 4) Y308M/5: Suffolk (image 5, page 5) Y308M/6: ? Suffolk (image 6, page 6) Y308M/7: [View from the shore of a large ship anchored at sea] (image 7, page 7) Y308M/8: [View from the shore of a large ship anchored at sea] (image 8, page 8) Y308M/9: [View from the shore of an unidentified ship] (image 9, page 9) Y308M/10: [View of the bows of the Cornwall] (image 10, page 10) Y308M/11: [View of the Cornwall alongside a quay] (image 11, page 11) Y308M/12: [View along the side of Cornwall, showing gangway visible in Y308M/11] (image 12, page 12) Y308M/13: [Horses being sent up the gangway] (image 13, page 13) Y308M/14: [View of the gangway from the opposite side] (image 14, page 14) Y308M/15: [View of gangway; ship to left, railway truck on right, with horses crossing it to the ship; crane in background] (image 15, page 15) Y308M/16: [Closer view of gangway with horse being led from the trunk on to it] (image 16, page 16) Y308M/17: [Closer view of the gangway showing the ship] (image 17, page 17) Y308M/18: [Opposite view of the gangway. Man marked FHH on deck] (image 18, page 18) Y308M/19: [Gangway seen from the ship looking across to shore] (image 19, page 19) Y308M/20: [Steep gangway, with horse ascending it] (image 20, page 20) Y308M/21: [A closer view of a steep gangway with horse ascending it] (image 21, page 21) Y308M/22: [Gangway from quayside (left) to unidentified ship at right] (image 22, page 22) Y308M/23: [Horses being driven between hurdles to gangway; view of the quayside looking down from the ship] (image 23, page 23) Y308M/24: [Horses crossing a waterside railway track and walking up a gangway (seen from ship). Bales of hay strewn about] (image 24, page 24) Y308M/25: [Horses ascending gangway, seen from the shore] (image 25, page 25) Y308M/26: [Horses ascending gangway, seen from the shore] (image 26, page 26) Y308M/27: [Group of people on the upper deck of a ship, with a funnel apparently marked with the Houlder symbol] (image 27, page 27) Y308M/28: [Central portion of stables with sloping roof and two side sections] (image 28, page 28) Y308M/29: [Stabling at one side of the deck] (image 29, page 29) Y308M/30: [Right-hand side of stabling clearly shown, left in the background; a funnel seen in the background resembles that of Cornwall] (image 30, page 30) Y308M/31: [Close up view of horses on left and right] (image 31, page 31) Y308M/32: [Horses in central stabling being fed, with men gathered round] (image 32, page 32) Y308M/33: [View looking down through ship's superstructure to stable below] (image 33, page 33) Y308M/34: [View of stabling from above; horses barely visible] (image 34, page 34) Y308M/35: [Row of horses' heads protruding from stalls on right] (image 35, page 35) Y308M/36: [Row of horses' heads protruding from stalls on right] (image 36, page 36) Y308M/37: [View of stabling] (image 37, page 37) Y308M/38: [View along the ship; no stabling apparent] (image 38, page 38) Y308M/39: [Horse corrals on shore, with unidentified ship in the background] (image 39, page 39) Y308M/40: [Horse corrals on shore, with unidentified ship in the background] (image 40, page 40) Y308M/41: [Horse corrals on shore, with unidentified ship in the background] (image 41, page 41) Y308M/42: [Horse corrals on shore] (image 42, page 42) Y308M/43: [Horse corrals on shore] (image 43, page 43) Y308M/44: [Horse corrals on shore] (image 44, page 44) Y308M/45: 'The crowd outside Houlder Brothers' Office in Sydney, the morning after a request for recruits to accompany horses for S. Africa' (image 45, page 45)
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