Portraits of WW1 Soldiers from the Australasian Traveller
State Library of Queensland

Explanatory Information
This open dataset contains details soldier portraits that were published in the Australasian Traveller.
About the dataset
Soldiers of World War 1 who were members of the Commercial Travellers' Association of Queensland had their portraits published in the association’s journal the Australasian Traveller published between 1914 and 1920.
State Library of Queensland has digitised all of these portraits. Anyone can search, view, and download a high resolution digital file of any of the portraits in One Search, our catalogue. To search for an individual soldier, visit our catalogue: https://bit.ly/2LzeruV
About the data files
The data is provided in a comma separated values (CSV) file. The file can be opened as a text file, or in spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel. Please note that if you are using Excel, it is best to use the Text Import Wizard and import all columns as ‘text’ rather than ‘general’ format. This will prevent Excel making changes to numbers or dates in the file.
Fields in the dataset
Record ID
Number – The unique identifier for the bibliographic metadata record (searchable in One Search)
e.g. ‘99184204404302061’
Digital ID
Number – Unique digital identifier for Rosetta, our digital preservation system.
e.g. ‘IE3883435’
Title of image
Text – Title of the individual soldier portrait.
e.g. ‘Portrait of 2nd Air-Mechanic A.P. Ashby, photographed in The Australasian Traveller, 5 June 1918’
Image caption
Text – Caption that accompanies the soldier portrait.
e.g. ‘Caption: 2nd Air-Mechanic A.P. Ashby.  2nd Air-Mechanic. Australian Flying Squadron. Second son of Mr. L. E. Ashby (Past-President, C.T.A. of Queensland).’
Full name and service number (from National Archives of Australia)
Text – Full name and service number of the soldier from the National Archives of Australia.
e.g. ‘Full name & Service number (from National Archives of Australia): Arthur Patrick Ashby, Service Number – 3494’
Full name from embarkation roll (from Australian War Memorial)
Text – Full name of the soldier from the embarkation roll from the Australian War Memorial.
e.g. ‘Full name from embarkation roll (from Australian War Memorial): Arthur Patrick Ashby’
NAA identifier
Text – Unique identifier for service people assigned by National Archives of Australia.
e.g. ‘NAA person ID: 75024’
Embarkation ship (from Australian War Memorial)
Text – Name of the ship on which the soldier embarked, from the Australian War Memorial.
e.g. ‘Embarkation ship: HMAT Demosthenes A64’
Date of embarkation (from Australian War Memorial)
Text – Date upon which the soldier embarked, from the Australian War Memorial.
e.g. ‘Embarkation date: 5 October 1918’
Provenance
Text – Location of the photograph in The Australasian Traveller.
e.g. ‘Photograph appears on page 1 of The Australasian Traveller, Vol. 14, No. 4, 5 June 1918’
Image number
Text – Unique identifier for the digitised SLQ image.
e.g. ‘Image number: 684723-v014n004-s0001-0001’
Copyright statement
Text – Copyright status.
e.g. ‘Out of copyright.’
Conditions of use
Text – Conditions of use and attribution information for the re-use of these images.
e.g. ‘You are free to use without permission. Please attribute the State Library of Queensland.’
Source
Text – Original source of the soldier portrait.
e.g. ‘Digitised from The Australasian Traveller, 5 June 1918’
Subject [1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5]
Text – Library of Congress Name authority headings (LCNAMES) and Subject Headings (LCSH) for names and topics that are the subject of the material.
e.g. ‘Australia.--Army.--Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)’ ‘United Commercial Travellers' Association of Australasia’
Link to permanent portrait image
Text – Permanent URL to the digital image in the SLQ catalogue
e.g. ‘http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/464904’
Please send any questions or feedback about any of the datasets released publicly by State Library to opendata@slq.qld.gov.au.