File:Adelaide Battery of Artillery, 1877(GN01668).jpg

The State Library of South Australia image (PRG280/1/15/190) has the following description: 'Adelaide Battery of Artillery, taken on the old Parade Ground, on the site of the South Australian Museum. The building on the right is the old Ordnance Store, and that on the left the Police Barracks. Colonel L.B. Matthews (on horse) commanded the Battery.

The officers from L -R are Lieut J.L.R. Fiveash, Capt. W.D. Claxton, and Lieut. B. Solomon. The battery wore the imposing blue Garibaldi jackets with scarlet facing and stripes. The guns are six-pounders. The Battery practised at Glenelg and fired from the south side of the jetty into the sea at a target placed on Oyster Point. Other members of the Battery included Sgt. C. Wells, Sgt. Charles White of Fulham, Cpl. Thomas Barnett, Gunner Frederick W. Botting of the Lands Office is the tall figure on the extreme right of the picture, Gunner Daniel Lawrence and Gunner J. N. Perry.' The photograph taken in 1877 was published in the Adelaide Observer, 1 January 1916, p30.

The Adelaide Battery of Artillery had formed by 1867 (the first newspaper reference). It took part in ceremonial occasions such as the Queen's Birthday and the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1867.