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Title
Volume 2: William H. Burrell war snapshots, 17th Battalion and 4th Railway Unit, 1915-1919
Call number
PXA 111/vol. 2
Level of description
item
Date

1915-1919
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
958024
Issue Copy
Digitised : 2014
Physical Description
1 album (52 photographs) - 24.5 x 18.5 cm
Scope and Content
Contains photographs taken during the First World War in France, Belgium, and on board ‘Aeneas’.

Front endpaper. War snapshots by W.H. Burrell 17th Battalion & 4th Railway unit 1915-1919 [title] ; T.S.S. Aeneas leaving Woolloomooloo Wharf December 20th 1915. Please keep this also any other photos I send because they are hard to get & I would like to have them all when I come back as souvenirs of the trip over [postcard] ; Pozieres, France [14 soldiers]

1. Autographs of the Lithgow Boys on board Xmas 1915 [photograph of ‘Aeneas’ with 16 signatures on reverse] ; Our Billet at Bois Grenier after the first shell had hit it 1916 ; Myself observing & a friend in the front line at Bois Grenier 1916
2. Myself writing in the front line at Bois Grenier 1916 ; Two friends in the front line at Bois Grenier 1916
3. J. Fiddling’s grave at Bois Grenier 1916 ; 20th Battalion victims of the German trench raid May 1916
4. A pretty grave near Armentieres 1916 ; Remains of a house near Armentieres 1916
5. A pretty shrine at Beauval 1916 ; Sun Woods & Jack McNiel Bois Grenier 1916
6. Windmill at Caestre 1916 ; Myself on the banks of the river Lys near Armentieres 1916
7. In the midst of wheat & poppies 1916 ; Travelling kitchens 1916
8. Remains of La Boiselle village after the bombardment 1916 ; A view of Sausage gully 1916
9. Steeple of Albert church showing the statue of the Madonna & child hanging over as the result of a hit by a shell 1916 ; Albert Church 1916
10. Myself lying in a dugout at Pozieres 1916 ; A “winged” aeroplane at Pozieres 1916
11. Sgt P. Kemp’s grave at Pozieres 1916 ; “Mother & her flock” taken near St Omer 1917
12. Ypres Cathedral Belgium 1916 ; Organ of Ypres Cathedral – one pipe left
13. Sanctuary wood from the front line 1916 ; Undamaged altar in a ruined convent at Ypres 1916
14. Delville wood 1916 ; Stranded “tank” in the mud at Flers 1916
15. A stretcher-bearer walking across the open under protection of the white flag – stranded tank in middle of picture Flers 1916 ; Destroyed German gun position Somme 1918
16. Beaucourt Chateau 1917 ; Myself in the Front line at Flers 1916
17. 17th Batt’n memorial cross at Pozieres erected 1917 ; 2nd Divisional cross on Pozieres ridge erected 1917
18. Myself & friend fishing in a French canal near St Omer 1917 ; A Frenchman catching eels 1917
19. “Butte de Warlencourt” (Somme) showing the blown in positions & dugouts of the Germans – captured 1917 ; Remains of Biefrillers church 1917
20. German memorial left in Bapaume cemetery 1917 ; Tim Lawler’s grave. Buried by the Germans 1917
21. German prisoners at Dunkirk 1918 ; Erected 1918 [photograph of grave of Lt Cpl A.R.M. Stewart]
22. 17th Batt’n advancing on Anzac Redoubt 1917 ; Ruins of Ypres showing the Cathedral & Cloth Hall towers 1917
23. Railway cabin at Misery 1918 ; Destroyed German engine, Somme 1918
24. Railway cabin at Misery 1918 ; German gun position Somme 1918
Back endpaper. [Unidentified soldiers and grave of Pte O. Kelly]
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Collection arranged and described by Ann Peck, for the practical component of the Master of Information Studies course, Charles Sturt University, February 2012
General note

State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
Digital order no:Album ID : 1055127
Name
Aeneas (Ship)
Subject
World War, 1914-1918--France.
Topic
trenches
war damage
war graves
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