• Title
  Item 03: Australian Official World War I photographs
• Call number
  PXB 215/27-46
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1917-1918
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  69805
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 20 silver gelatin photoprints - 15.5 x 21 cm.-16.5 x 21.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  27. Australians fight for Bullecourt. Australian gunners loading an 18 pounder
  28. Battle of Messines. Australians watching the smoke from a burning dump on a road near Nieppe
  29. Battle of Messines. Australians studying the large contour map which was made for the troops to give them a good knowledge of the country around Messines, etc.
  30. Australians' fight for Bullecourt. Australian Pigeon Despatch Rider leaving Signals H.Q.
  31. Interior of a dugout occupied by officers of a Howitzer Battery, A.F.A.
  32. Showing the effect of a 9.2 British shell on a reinforced concrete German dugout. The dugout was some 10 ft. below the surface of the ground, concrete roof and walls were over 2 ft. thick
  33. Advanced Dressing Station, A.I.F.
  34. Troops marching through a ruined a village near Ypres
  35. General view of a division A.I.F. being reviewed by General Sir D. Haig
  36. Behind the lines. Lewis Gun Drill. Battery of an Australian Division
  37. Behind the lines - bayonet drill. A battalion of an Australian Division
  38. Behind the lines - physical exercise. An Australian Division
  39. Australian battalion marching to the trenches
  40. Sandbagged dugout occupied by members of Howitzer Battery, A.F.A.
  41-42. Australian Seige Battery in action. Firing a Howitzer
  43. Gunners with their respirators on firing a Howitzer, R.A.G.A.
  44. An Australian heavy Howitzer in action
  45. A brigade A.F.A. out for a brief rest after many months in the firing line
  46. Clearing the roadway
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  A bibliography of servicemen's and women's diaries of World War I is held in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at PXn 878
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1014758
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  All titled on reverse
• Name
  Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)
  Messines (Belguim), Battle of (1917)
  Western Front Campaign (1914-1918)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  armies
  artillery
  campaigns & battles
  dressing stations
  gasmasks
  horsedrawn vehicles
  military exercises
  military parades
  motorcycles
  ruins
  trench warfare
  war damage
  
• Place
  Belgium
  France
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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