69807
- TitleItem 05: Australian Official World War I photographs
- Call numberPXB 215/74-99
- Level of descriptionseries
- Date
1917-1918 - Type of material
- Reference code69807
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical DescriptionPhotographs - 26 silver gelatin photoprints - 15.5 x 20.5 cm.-16.5 x 22 cm.
- Scope and Content74. Laying down roadways. Australian pioneers co a roadway whilst the battle goes on
75. A captured Flammenwerfer. This fiendish weapon we are now using against its designers
76. A few `empties' used during the Battle of Zonnebeke
77. A captured Boche gun
78. Headquarters of an Australian Brigade during the second battle of Zonnabeke
79. Looking towards Hooge. Supports coming up to the front
80. One of the Hun guns captured at Broodseuide Ridge
81. One of the strongest strong points where very heavy fighting took place
82. `Gas' Australian troops with respirators on, pose for the camera in the advanced trenches
83. `Limbers going up' Limbers loaded with ammunition proceeding to the front
84. Bringing up ammunition
85. `Hauling up the guns'. After an advance all the artillery has to be moved up and here the gunners are seen hauling a field piece over the shell torn ground
86. Support going up after the battle to relieve the front trenches. Note their observation balloons above the bright cloud
87. A memorial of the recent great battles Zonnbeke around which some of the fiercest fighting took place
88. A glimpse of Zonnebeke and the lake. The scene of heavy fighting and counter attacks. The ground is torn into waves by our artillery fire
89. Australian pioneers laying a duckboard track
90. Australian troops going up to relieve and rest on the duckboards in a no man's land area
91. `Funking it', taking shelter in funk holes during a gas alarm
92. Australian troops in the foremost trenches
93. An approach to Ypres. A tired battalion coming out on rest
94. Each little cross bears a name and identity tablet and the epitaph `Here lies a Brit ... R.I.P'
95. Transports in endless streams ply to and from the battle area
96. Wheels that ceaselessly run to and from the battlefield
97. The captured German Brigadier and Battalion Commander would not submit to be photographed. They are here undergoing an interrogation
98. During the battle prisoners assisted in bringing in our wounded. They are here seen carrying one
99. Marsh lands over which our troops passed during the attack - Copying ConditionsOut 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
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