The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 28900 Gunner (Gnr) Francis Thomas Moody Sweeny, 2nd Medium Trench Mortar Battery, of Carrington, NSW. An engine fitter before enlisting in May 1916, Gnr Sweeny left Australia for England with the 2nd Reinforcements in September 1916, and arrived for service on the Western Front in April 1917. After transferring to the 5th Field Artillery Brigade in May 1917, Gnr Sweeny received a serious head wound at Larch Wood on 24 September 1917 and was repatriated to England to the Queen Mary's Military Hospital at Whalley, Lancashire. He succumbed to his wounds on the 21 October 1917, aged 32.
Studio portrait of 28910 Acting Corporal (Cpl) Walter Howard Wivell, 7th Field Artillery Brigade. A seaman from Inslington, NSW, Cpl Wivell enlisted in June 1916 and embarked with the Medium Trench Mo
Two studio portraits of Margaretha Dorothea Iwers. Born in 1887, she served with the Australian Army Nursing Service for the duration of the First World War, in the Middle East, India, France and Quee
At Sea. c. July 1917. An informal group of four Australian soldiers and one of the ship's officers stand beside the lifeboats on board SS Suevic which is transporting Australian troops to England. Lef
Studio portrait of 5988 Private (Pte) Henry Douglas Boyd. A fitter of Rockhampton, Qld, with eighteen months service in the Military Citizens' Forces (CMF), Boyd enlisted on 6 March 1916. He embarked
Studio portrait of 31847 Gunner (Gnr) Richard Lloyd Temple, 5th Medium Trench Mortar Battery, from Nyngan, NSW. An 18 year old station manager prior to enlistment on 17 October 1916, he embarked for o
Remembrance card with studio portrait of 5988 Private (Pte) Henry Douglas Boyd. A fitter of Rockhampton, Qld, with eighteen months service in the Military Citizens' Forces (CMF), Boyd enlisted on 6 Ma
