E (Wallsend) Company, 4th Regiment NSW Volunteer Infantry - 1897

[slick_mick]

Fifteen members of E (Wallsend) Company, 4th Regiment NSW Volunteer Infantry having won the overall New South Wales Defence Force Rifle Shooting Competition in 1897, the cup on the table being presented by the officers of the regiment.

Identified in the third row from the front, third from the left with the sash is 387 Sergeant (Sgt) Samuel Homes of West Wallsend, NSW. Born in Newcastle in 1859, Sgt Homes joined the 4th Regiment New South Wales Volunteer Infantry in 1885, a year after it had been raised. He served for 40 years with the unit, including those that succeeded it (4th Australian Infantry Regiment, 16th Infantry (Newcastle) Regiment and 2nd Infantry Regiment). Samuel Homes died in 1945.

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Mick