69808
- TitleItem 06: Australian Official World War I photographs
- Call numberPXB 215/100-122
- Level of descriptionseries
- Date
1917-1918 - Type of material
- Reference code69808
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical DescriptionPhotographs - 23 silver gelatin photoprints - 17 x 21.5 cm.
- Scope and Content100. The road side strewn with engineers and railwaymen's supplies
101. A mule team stuck in the mud
102. Some of the Australians resting after doing duty in the trenches
103. Caring for the feet of the men who have been several days in the front line
104. A Hun strong point used as a Dressing Station
105. 15 inch Howitzers familiarly called `Granny'. One of the enormous weapons used to support the Australian Infantry in the recent battle
106. `Pill box demolishers' - these enormous shells weigh 1400 lbs. Their explosion makes a crater over 15 ft. deep and 15 yards across
107. One of our Allies whose mighty voice thunders our peace terms. Used in the recent battle to support the ANZACS
108. The achievements of the Artillery in the recent activities has elicited great admiration from the Infantry. Here is a battery of 18 pounders in action
109. Hun strong point
110-112. The captured territory looking towards Henebeck, Westhoek, and Inverness Copse from Polygoneveld.
113-114. Looking towards Glencourse Wood and Inverness Copse during the German counter-attack
115-116. Looking back to Westhoek Ridge on the right. Henebeck on the left
117. The Hun objective, on the morning of our attack
118. The Hun is his haste discards his signalling apparatus. A two man car dynamo, driven bicycle fashion, for supplying signal lights
119. A strafed Hun strong point (dug outs along a hedge)
120. An Australian First Aid Post
121. Australian Divisional Aid Post
122. A Labour Battalion making a road near Westhoek Ridge - 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
Digital order no:Album ID : 1014760 - Signatures / Inscriptions
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