The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of Captain (Capt) Eric Webb, 7th Field Company Engineers, who enlisted in Sydney but was originally of Papanui, New Zealand, and James Francis (Frank) Hurley. The portrait was probably taken in 1916 while both Webb and Hurley were in London. Capt Webb enlisted on 29 September 1915 and embarked from Sydney on HMAT Suffolk on 22 December 1915. Webb served with distinction until the termination of his appointment on 7 April 1920. On 29 December 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for distinguished service in the field. During operations at Peronne between 29-31 August 1918, and with the rank of Major, Webb was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for displaying 'the greatest courage, skill, and powers of leadership and organisation in constructing and repairing bridges for crossing the Somme, under continuous shell and machine-gun fire.' Webb was also twice Mentioned in Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches, on 7 April 1918 and again on 16 March 1919. Before enlistment, Capt Webb was an Assistant Engineer with the New Zealand Public Works Department. As a 22 year old, he had travelled to Antarctica with Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911-1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, as the expedition's magnetician. On Mawson's expedition he met Frank Hurley, the expedition's official photographer. After returning from Mawson's expedition, Hurley returned to Antarctica as the official photographer of Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 expedition. He was in London promoting his photographs and film of Shackleton's expedition when he was appointed to the Australian War Records Section as an official photographer. With fellow official photographer George Hubert Wilkins, Hurley embarked for France on 21 August 1917.
A cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula, showing at centre the original grave of Captain (Capt) Edward Frederick Robert Bage, 3rd Field Company Australian Engineers. Before the war, Capt Bage was an ast
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND. 1911. STERN VIEW OF THE STEAM YACHT AURORA, A BARQUENTINE WITH AUXILIARY STEAM POWER, WHICH SERVED WITH SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON'S AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1911-1914, AND AL
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND. 1911. BOW VIEW OF THE STEAM YACHT AURORA, A BARQUENTINE WITH AUXILIARY STEAM POWER, IN DRY DOCK. SHE SERVED WITH SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON'S AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1911-191
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND. 1911. STARBOARD QUARTER VIEW OF THE STEAM YACHT AURORA, A BARQUENTINE WITH AUXILIARY STEAM POWER, IN DRY DOCK. SHE SERVED WITH SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON'S AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDI
Studio portrait of 7306 Gunner (Gnr) Leslie Russell Blake, 5th Field Artillery Brigade, of East Malvern, Vic. A geological surveyor who had been part of Sir Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expedition from
Portrait of Captain James Francis (Frank) Hurley who served as an official photographer with the Department of Information during the Second World War. He had also served in a similar capacity with th
