Military portrait of Bill Byron

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Title:	Military portrait of Bill Byron
Identifier:	archives.org.au/HMW84
Parent item:	Photos, poetry, and notes relating to Bill Byron
Storage location:	H.M. Wilson Archives/Folder 1 (sort key: 70 ← Previous Next →)
Date:	1917
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License:	This work is free of known copyright restrictions. It entered the public domain in Australia on 1 January 1955.
Related people:	William Byron · Ernest Anderton Frank Hall · Esther Winifred Hall (née Smalpage)
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Keywords:	H.M. Wilson Archives · military (create)
Description:	A photographic portrait and postcard of Bill Byron, sent to Ernest and Winifred Hall in 1917, with an excerpt from Adam Lindsay Gordon's poem The Sick Stockrider written on the back.

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"It was merry in the glowing morn
Among the gleaming grass{br} To wander as we wandered many a mile.
And watch the cool tobacco smoke in white wreaths as it passed
Sitting loosely in the saddle all the while.
T'was merry in the blackwoods
When we spied the station roofs
To wheel the wild scrub cattle at the yard.
With a running fire of stockwhips
And a firey run of hoofs
The hardest day was never then too hard."

"Gordon"

To E. & W. Hall,

With best wishes & kindest memories from

W. Byron.

Sinai Peninsula

1917.

Given to H.M. Wilson by Gwyn Hutchison. Wm. Byron was my godfather & was killed in the 1914–18 war. 1979.