Reid, Allan Forrester, 1888-1980

Date: 1916 - 1917

From: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :[Sketches from war service in India and the Middle East, 1919-1918] / F L McFarlane

Reference: E-291-q-027

Description: "Tomahawk" Xmas shows a man in a one-piece bathing costume ttentatively wading in ankle-deep water. This picture may be by Alan F Reid (see similar signature on page 029) Major Stafford shows two full length portrait of soliders in brimmed hats. At the bottom of the page is a head and shoulders crayon portrait of a stour white-bearded man in a green turban (similar to that at E-288-q-018) Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, watercolour and crayon sketches mounted on album page 336 x 238 mm.

Date: 1911 - 1917

From: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :[Sketches from war service in India and the Middle East, 1919-1918] / F L McFarlane

Reference: E-291-q-029

Description: Watercolour at top left shows a silhouette of a sailing ship at evening or dawn. The ink and watercolour drawing by Alan Reid at top right shows a roughly clad caveman standing outside the doorway of a stone building and watching the approach of his son through a telescope. At lwer right is a half-length portrait a a smiling soldier smoking a cigarette. His right arm is in a plaster and a sling and he wears a Red cross label. Perhaps the title means he is smiling because the cigarette was free ("buckshee"). Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, and watercolour sketches mounted on album page 336 x 238 mm.

Date: 1918

By: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948

Reference: B-046-009/011

Description: B-046-009 shows a soldier in New Zealand uniform rushing along a railway line, a steaming billy in his hand, while a train approaches round a corner, the burning contents of its tender annotated 'Boyne'. B-036-010 has two men's faces in profile. B-046-011 'Planting corn (rainy season), Bombay - Deolal July '18' shows men in a paddock planting corn and wearing sacks or waterproofs covering their heads and shoulders down to their legs. Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet, 228 x 523 mm Transfers: Diaries, papers and photos transferred to MSS Section.

Date: 1916 - 1918

By: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948

Reference: A-184-009/057

Description: Subjects: Landscapes, buildings, portraits, caricatures and cartoons done in Palestine, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and India while serving with Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division Some items signed Quantity: 49 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, pencil or ink on sheets 108 x 59 mm to 228 x 290 mm Transfers: Diaries, papers and photos transferred to MSS Section - A group of three larger pencil sketches from the same source located at B-046-009/011.

Date: 1916-1918

By: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948; McFarlane, Shona Graham, 1929-2001

Reference: E-287/291-q

Description: Subjects: Landscapes, buildings, portraits, caricatures and cartoons done in Palestine, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and India while serving with Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division Some items signed Quantity: 5 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Watercolour or ink 345 x 247 mm Transfers: Diaries, papers and photos transferred to MSS Section.See library reference MS-Papers-2409. - - For other art material by Francis McFarlane deposited at same time and of the same provenance, see Library references C-057-014/017; B-046-009/011; A-184-009/057..