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69777
  • Title
    [Exhibits from World War I in the Australian War Museum]
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXB 240
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    ca. 1914-1918
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    69777
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    Photographs - 9 x 14 cm.-14 x 9 cm. - 24 postcards
  • Scope and Content
    1. View of the Main Hall, Australian War Museum, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
    2. Anti-gas equipment. Various types of gas masks used by the belligerent nations
    3. Australian uniforms - the figure on the left is covered with Somme mud
    4. The Bomber. The bronze by Lieut. C. Web. Gilbert
    5. ANZAC `undress' - a model by Lieut. W.W. Anderson
    6. Sports trophies won in the field by A.I.F. units
    7. Large trophies in one of the Pavilions ... note the tank at the far end
    8. A French 520 M.M. shell ... stands 6 ft. 4in. high, weighs nearly 2 tons
    9. An Australian device for keeping up a desultory fire after the evacuation of ANZAC, which prevented the Turks from becoming suspicious of the withdrawal ...
    10. A rare trophy. Regimental colours of the 46th Turkish Regiment ...
    11. A German disappointment ... wreath
    12. Improvised billiard table made in the field by ... 2nd Divisional Train
    13. 1st Divisional Artillery going into action at Ypres, 31 July 1917 ... picture by Lieut. H.S. Power
    14. In Flanders Mud ... by Lieut. H. Septiums ... at Ypres, Autumn 1917
    15. The last dash for Damascus by Lieut. H. Septiums
    16. Attacking a pill-box ... by Lieut. Fred Leist ... Ypres sector at the end of 1917
    17. Charge of the 4th Light Horse at Beersheba, 31st October 1917 by Captain G.W. Lambert
    18. The morning of the 4th July, 1918 at Hamel ...
    19. Breaking the Hindenburg Line, 30th September 1918 by Captain W.F. Longstaff ...
    20. The attack on Mont St. Quentin by Lieut. C. Web. Gilbert ...
    21. H.M.A.S. Australia ... painting by A.J.W. Burgess
    22. Emden beached and done for by A.J.W. Burgess
    23. The vicar's vimy ... the aeroplane in which the late Sir Ross Smith ... historic flight from England to Australia
    24. German cartoons
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Published 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 : 1025657
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    All postcards are captioned lower edge
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