Anzac Day 1970. Roy Brockfield leads Metropolitan Fire Brigade contingent

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Acquisition number: 1766

Catalogue number: emdf0470

File name: DF0470

File location: Digital archive

Roy Brockfield is seen leading the Metropolitan Fire Brigade contingent at the Anzac Day parade in 1970. He was chosen to lead as he was by then the only surviving WWI veteran in the MFB. Brockfield worked at the Eastern Hill Fire Station for 45 years, many of them as foreman of the workshops.

Item type: Photograph

Related content: Firefighter's funeral 1968

Photographer: Douglas Brockfield

Date of publication or creation: 1970

History of item

Roy Brockfield took photos of the funeral procession for firefighter, Bruce Adams, in 1968. See link above

Douglas Brockfield, the photograher, is his son.

Owner of original: Douglas Brockfield

Reproduction rights: Douglas Brockfield

Permission reference: East Melbourne Historical Society

Year acquired: 2023

Donor: Douglas Brockfield