A reply received to a previous post. Dear Mr Harris, I came across your great www.diggerhistory.info site yesterday after following the link from your reply to Mrs Henderson's post on 'AUS-MILITARY'. I have a general interest in late nineteenth century commonwealth uniforms, and think that the photographs from Mrs Henderson are particularly fascinating. I thought I could add a couple of points to the notes you made. It's worth pointing out that the National Guard was a NSW unit. Rick Grebert's Military Badges of the Australian Colonies says it was raised on 27 August 1896 and was made up of veterans of the British or colonial forces. The uniforms in the second picture are very similar to NSW infantry (especially the white gorget patches), and not so much so to the Victorian forces. I don't think it's possible to identify the unit of James Henderson from the photo, since his badge seems to be a generic Victorian Forces one, but I agree it's probably infantry, and definitely not artillery (the picture of Sgt Major Jones! , 4th Bn. also seems to be the same). It must be after 1880, because officers' 'pips' were worn on the collar until then in the British Army, and maybe later in some colonial forces. Thanks for your time. Hope I'm not sticking my nose in. Tim Lovering Stirlingshire, Scotland