The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Soldiers running to take shelter from a heavy shellburst at Glencorse Wood in the Ypres salient. A print from this negative is held in the Wilkins papers at the Byrd Polar Research Centre, The Ohio State University Archives, and carries the following inscription in Wilkins' hand: ' A shell burst in a front line trench in France. This was the last picture I took that day for the next shell wrecked the camera". Wilkins was also wounded.
Informal portrait of George Hubert Wilkins. After returning to Australia in 1917 from the Arctic where he was the deputy leader of the Stefansson expedition, Wilkins joined the Australian Flying Corps
Informal portrait of Captain (Capt) George Hubert Wilkins. After returning to Australia in 1917 from the Arctic where he was the deputy leader of the Stefansson expedition, Wilkins joined the Australi
Informal portrait of Captain (Capt) George Hubert Wilkins. After returning to Australia in 1917 from the Arctic where he was the deputy leader of the Stefansson expedition, Wilkins joined the Australi
The gateway to the battlefield of Ypres through Chateau Wood, in the Ypres Salient. An unidentified soldier takes cover behind one of the shell damaged tree trunks on the roadside. This is a composite
A view of the moat surrounding Ypres, showing the stricken trees on the ramparts and the shell pitted wall. The bridge in the foreground was constructed by Australian engineers to lessen the pressure
Machine gunners of the 4th Division, with a captured trench mortar in the trenches near Garter Point, in the Ypres Salient. This was the nearest rest trench to the enemy, and although some distance aw
