I'm taking an educated guess here, by looking at the other matched photo with the same name, Victor Frederick De Amyand. The background shows palm trees. And now with looking at this photo, that weapon was in use during the Spanish- American War from April to August, 1898. Likely at the same time the photograph was taken in Cuba, perhaps Florida.
Victor Frederick D'Amyand of Australia was born in 1887 in Collingwood, VIC, and died at age 68 years old in 1955 in Northcote. Victor D'Amyand was buried on February 21, 1955 at Fawkner Cemetery in Fawkner.
Who doesn't love a man (or woman) in uniform? Almost everybody has worn a uniform sometime in their life - these are the vintage versions of those uniforms.
Uniforms are worn by many kinds of people - children and adults - in all kinds of organizations. Police, firefighters, nurses, paramedics, the military, Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts, sports teams, prisone...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
These vintage photos of World War I's battlefields offer a glimpse into the lives of soldiers and civilians.
World War I (1914-1918) was a global conflict between the Central Powers (led by
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire) and the Allied Powers (led by France, Great Britain, and Russia) tha...
I want to build a place where my son can meet his great-grandparents. My grandmother Marian Joyce (Benning) Kroetch always wanted to meet her great-grandchildren, but she died just a handful of years before my son's birth.
So while she didn't have the opportunity to meet him, at least he will be able to know her.
For more information about what we're building see About AncientFaces. For information on the folks who build and support the community see Daniel - Founder & Creator. My father's side is full blood Sicilian and my mother's side is a combination of Welsh, Scottish, German and a few other European cultures. One of my more colorful (ahem black sheep) family members came over on the Mayflower. He was among the first to be hanged in the New World for a criminal offense he made while onboard the ship.