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Title
Item 09: Australian Official World War I photographs
Call number
PXB 215/188-253
Level of description
series
Date

1917-1918
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
69811
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
Photographs - 66 silver gelatin photoprints - 17 x 21.5 cm.
Scope and Content
188. A railway bridge completely demolished by the enemy
189. The smoke of an artillery barrage before the advancing Australians
190. A church in a village captured by Australians on the Somme
191. The steep sided slopes stormed by the Australians in a recent attack
192. `Comforts for the troops'. An Australian Comforts Fund Depot established in a ruined village behind the line
193. `A peaceful scene in the war scene'. Australians boating on the Somme
194. `Australians salvaging useful war material left behind by the enemy in a town just recaptured'
195. An Australian Division entraining for the back areas
196. Watering the horses. Australian and American troops watering their horses at a village well on the front
197. Brilliant organisation. Within a few hours of the capture of a village, light railways are to be seen conveying material across the newly won country. The picture was taken on the Australian Front
198. Rolling back the enemy. Australian Artillery keeping the Germans on the move. So quickly has the enemy retreated that our guns are advancing daily from one position to another
199. A captive. A German gun which failed to keep the Australians out of the Hindenburg Line
200. Australians pose for their photograph on a captured German gun
201. The cooks of the Australian cookers who reached the Hindenburg Line shortly after the Infantry
202. German guns repaired in a mobile workshop ready to be used against him by our artillerymen
203. Hindenburgs system of defence. A concrete trench facing a fire step over a dug out entrance in the main Hindenburg Line
204. German camouflage on huts abandoned in their retreat
205. Australian transport waiting for supplies at Australian ordnance dump in France
206. Making use of the waterways. Clean clothing for the Australian troops being despatched in barges
207. Armourer's Workshop at Australian Ordnance Store in France
208. Artillery Store at an Australian Ordnance Dump in France
209. A busy scene at an Australian Ordnance Store in France
210. Repairing the roads through the Hindenburg System of Defence
211. Boxing behind the lines. Australians hold a tournament on the Western Front
212-213. An Australian Divisional Commander reviewing his troops behind the lines in France
214. Repairing the water main. Australians at work in the street of a newly captured village on the Western front
215. A stronghold in the Hindenburg Line. The canal and tunnel near Bullecourt captured, stormed and taken by Australians
216. The headquarters staff and details of an Australian Infantry Brigade in France
217. General view of Australian Infantry in France
218. An overhaul. Mechanics of an Australian Flying Corps Squadron at work on a machine on the Western Front
219. Placing the trestles in position. A timber trestle and bridge being built alongside a destroyed brick arch bridge
220. How the troops keep merry and bright. Australian `Cookaburras' entertaining an audience of troops, nurses and members of the Q.M.A.A.C. in a town somewhere in France
221. Australian engineers building a timber trestle and a bridge alongside a destroyed brick arch bridge
222. The 2nd Australian Tunnelling Coy. unit working in conjunction with American Engineers on a road to open up communication during an attack by the enemy on the Hindenburg Line
223. Returning home. French civilians coming back to their homes in the hitherto war zone
224. A visitor from the air. A Handley Page machine visits an Australian Hospital in France
225. Australians on review in France
226. Interested spectators. Australian Nursing Sisters watching an Australian Review in France
227. A panorama showing how the enemy on Mt St Quentin could shoot at the back of the Australians who had dug in along the railway embankment
228. Demolition charges placed on the side of bridges in specially designed tins
229. A ruined narrow street near the Citadel, Peronne
230. The memorial crosses of the 56th and 53rd Battalions
231. The village of Joncourt
232. Artillery reinforcements going to the line by motor lorry
233. The Corps D.A.D.O.S. at Peronne
234. Fourth Army Headquarters on the Western Front (left of panorama)
235. Fourth Army H.Q. on the Western Front
236. The Army Commander's Office of 4th Army H.Q. in the field
237. `Camouflaged artillery'. Australians with their guns and limbers camouflaged with foliage
238. `Following the Hun'. Australian artillery moving up after a recent advance on the Somme
239. The British are not behind the Huns in inventive power. This is a `faked' tree of a type used by both sides for observation posts
240. A useful and comfortable though somewhat obvious `O. Pip'
241. Bray Church which has been used by the Germans as a hospital
242. `Rebridging the Somme'. Australians at work
243. A camouflaged dug out lately occupied by Australians
244. Australian troops coming out of the line after several days hard fighting
245. Horselines of an Australian Field Ambulance showing how the horses are protected from air attack
246. An Australian Field Ambulance, new type of Dressing Station in France
247. A French barn used for sheltering the transport horses of an Australian Field Ambulance
248. A panorama of Villers Bretonneux
249. `Making hay while the sun shines'. Harvesting behind the lines on the Somme, brings back cherished memories of home to the Australian troops in France
250. Cooks of the 5th Battalion, A.I.F.
251. `C' Coy. Field Cooker and staff, 6th Battalion, A.I.F.
252. A typical scene in every Belgian home
253. Right half of panorama. P...? village looking towards our lines, showing concrete observation posts in buildings and manner in which they dominated the low country
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 : 1014763
Signatures / Inscriptions

All titled on reverse
Name
Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)
Western Front Campaign (1914-1918)
Subject
Adult Males
Adult Females
Topic
interiors
aerial observation (military science)
aeroplanes
armies
army camps
artillery
barges
boxing (sports)
bridges
campaigns & battles
churches
cooks
dressing stations
graves
harvesting
horses
living rooms
mechanics (people)
military parades
nurses
railway bridges
railways
ruins
theatres & cinemas
trench warfare
war damage
Place
Belgium
France
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