009 - 073 - A bugler sounds the retreat outside the Sergeants Mass at Hilsea Barracks
A bugler sounds the retreat outside the Sergeants Mass at Hilsea Barracks
Image details
| Access number | |
|---|---|
| Cat by | |
| Cat date | |
| Copyright | |
| File | 73 |
| File 2 | |
| File key | 9073 |
| File MB 600 | 1.9 |
| File megabytes | 0.5 |
| File resolution | 300 |
| File resolution 600 | 600 |
| File size | 17 x 12 |
| Folder | 9 |
| Home loc | |
| ID | 1094 |
| Object ID | RAO/267/30 |
| Object name | photograph, black and white<br/>(1980s reproduction of original postcard) |
| Other number | 6a/44 |
| Provenance | |
| Reverse | 74 |
| Reverse 2 | |
| Reverse key | 9074 |
| Status | In Store |
| Status by | AJA |
| Updated | 2nd September 2015 |
| Updated by | AJA |
| X date | [1920s?] |
| Equipment registration mark (ERM) | |
| Full name | |
| Early date | 1920 |
| Late date | 1930 |
| Transcription |
HI A A bugler sounds Retreat outside the sergeants ' mess at Hilsea Barracks in the early 1930's . To use modern parlance , The News , is on a nostalgia kick . My family at Purbrook kindly sends me all relevant cuttings which gives me great pleasure . I returned home for the first time after an absence of 30 years , in 1979. After five years service in the New Zealand Army , I travelled as a construction engineer throughout Australia , New Zealand , South Africa , Singapore and the South Pacific islands . It was dismaying to find that the Ordnance Depot and Hilsea Barracks had been obliterated by a housing development , but was pleased to observe that the north gate and sergeants ' mess still survived , also the main gates and parts of the wall , and the old riding school ( or drill shed ) . I enlisted as an armourer at Hilsea in May 1934 , and served until August 1949 and I hope that the above photo will stir the memories of my old Ordnance wallahs still surviving ( I am now 62 ) .- L . J. Lambert , Waterford Drive , Hillarys , Western Australia . 334-81 HILSEA . |
