The date of bugle player William Langworthy’s birthday is unknown, but we do know he came from the Canley Vale roughly 25km west of Sydney’s CBD. Date of birth: unknown. Date of enlistment: 19/2/1918. Trade or calling: Driver. Born in or near what town: Canley Vale, Sydney. Address prior to enlistment: Prospect Rd, Canley Vale, Sydney, NSW

Roy Wilfred Williams.  Date of birth: 18/3/1900. Date of enlistment: 24/4/1918. Trade or calling: Carter. Born in or near what town: Lithgow, NSW. Address prior to Enlistment: Pottery Estate, Lithgow, NSW. In 1918 the proprietor of Crown Studios, Mark Blow, offered the opportunity of being photographed to all enlisting and returning servicemen with the help of the Mitchell Library’s Trustees. During December that year, a fire burned the studio to the ground halting the project forever. 

James Munro Matheson. Details unknown, please contact the State Library of New South Wales if you have any information on James. The State Library is offering free prints to all descendants of the soldiers and are in search of more information about the soldiers’ lives after the Great War.

Jack Hodgson was wounded at Gallipoli, and in this image is showing the medal he received to his son. If you have any more detials on Jack, please contact the State Library of New South Wales.

Frank Anthony Martin. Details unknown, please contact the State Library of NSW if you have any information on Frank. 

Young Eric Huges was only just 18 when he enlisted in WWI. Date of birth: 4/5/1900. Date of enlistment: 5/8/1918. Trade or calling: Labourer. Born in or near what town: Newtown, Sydney, NSW.

Alfred Duroux was 25 when in enlisted in WWI. Date of birth: 11/8/1892. Date of enlistment: 12/6/1918. Born in or near what town: Cangai via Copmanhurst, central NSW

Frank H. Warren. Details unknown, please contact the State Library of NSW if you have any information on Frank. 

Exhibition curator of Portraits of War, Louise Tegart, says the collection is unusual in that they are staged photographs of soldiers before they went to war. “Most Australian WWI images are either by official war photographers such as Frank Hurley or snapshots taken by soldiers,” says Louise. “These were taken as both an official record but also for families to order and treasure. They are small, personal photographs that may be the only photographs of some men.”

Adam Sutherland. Details unknown, please contact the State Library of New South Wales if you have any information on Adam. 

Ernest Clumps. Details unknown, please contact the State Library of NSW if you have any information on Ernest. 

Albert Francis Bright. This is probably a reproduction of an older photograph made in 1916 that Crown Studios and the State Library of NSW reproduced for the serviceman’s family to keep as a memento. Details unknown, please contact the State Library of NSW if you have any information on Albert. 

Roy Henderson Robertson. Date of birth: ca. Febuary 1899 in Scarborough, NSW. School: Clifton, NSW. Other military training: Compulsory cadets. Date of Enlistment: 14/6/1915. Trade or calling: Grocer’s assistant. Born in or near what town: Scarborough, NSW. Address prior to enlistment: Scarborough, NSW.

Reginald Squires. Details unknown, please contact the State Library of NSW if you have any information on Reginald. 

Louis Robert Bromham. Date of birth: 9/8/1899. Date of enlistment: 2/2/1918. Trade or calling: Schoolteacher. Born in or near what Town: Coolamon, NSW. Address prior to enlistment: Tooyal North, Coolamon, NSW.

Adalbert Gurwood Broue. Details unknown, please contact the State Library of NSW if you have any information on Adalbert.

Sydney Beattie. Details unknown, please contact the State Library of NSW if you have any information on Sydney. 

William Fredrick Burke. Details unknown, please contact the State Library of NSW if you have any information on William. 

Claude James Hunt. Date of birth: 8/3/1899. Date of enlistment: 3/7/1918. Trade or calling: Grazier. Born in or near what Town: Inverell, NSW. Address prior to enlistment: Frazer St, West Narrabri, NSW.

Lancelot Thomas Crane. Details unknown, please contact the State Library of NSW if you have any information on Lancelot. 

Alfred Duroux. Date of birth: 11/8/1892. Date of enlistment: 12/6/1918. Born in or near what town: Cangai, NSW, via Copmanhurst, NSW