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Title
Item 07: Australian Official World War I photographs
Call number
PXB 215/123-154
Level of description
series
Date

1917-1918
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
69809
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
Photographs - 17 x 21.5 cm.-21.5 x 17 cm. - 32 silver gelatin photoprints
Scope and Content
123. The interior of the Cathedral at Albert
124. The mud of the battlefield
125. Guns being hauled by man power over ground too soft and wet for horse traffic
126. These are some handy men of the Australian Engineers making small stoves for the coming winter
127. A machine gun emplacement, though solidly built with slabs of concrete supported by heavy timbers, is effectively straffed by our heavy guns
128. Hurrying up an Australian Battery after the battle on the 4th. The battlefield was a quagmire through which the guns had to be hauled
129. Waggon horses shy at their stricken comrade on the wayside
130. At the Australian Comforts Fund Canteen, all men from the line are given free hot cups of cocoa. Infantry take theirs in the building while the Artillery stay with their horses
131. Moving up a Division of Australian troops
132. Winter congestion on the road. Australian troops moving up
133. The ruins of the Cathedral and Cloth Hall, Ypres
134. Australian Artillery coming out of the line
135. The congested interior of a dug out below ground surface level
136. A Field Company Engineers at their temporary billets
137. An observation balloon just about to ascend
138. Australian troops receiving their rations midst a ruined town near the front
139. A ruined street in Ypres
140. Hauling a light field piece into position over shell craters and through mud
141. British troops entraining
142. Mounting and overhauling a leviathan gun prior to going into action
143. A Howitzer battery in action during the recent activities in the front of Passchendaele
144. Australian gunners hauling up a piece to support an advance
145. A party of Australian Pioneers returning to their dug outs
146. A battery of Howitzers supporting the Australians
147. `How I did it' - an Australian infantryman telling his comrades of an exploit which is received with persiflage
148. The bricks of ages. Ruins of the Cloth Hall, Ypres
149. These are the only ways by which it is possible to pass over the sloughs and swamps of the battlefield
150. A heavy haul across the open country
151. Australian Field Engineers constructing dug outs
152. Ypres from 500 ft.
153. The barracks at Ypres, from 500 ft.
154. A seaside camp of Australian soldiers on the Western Front
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 : 1014761
Signatures / Inscriptions

All titled on reverse
Name
Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)
Western Front Campaign (1914-1918)
Subject
Adult Males
Topic
interiors
aerial observation (military science)
armies
artillery
campaigns & battles
cathedrals
English people
ruins
trench warfare
war damage
Place
Belgium
France