The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of 5424 Acting Corporal (A/Cpl) Albert Edward Beattie taken aboard A18 troopship to England. A teacher from Tumut, NSW, Beattie embarked with the 20th Battalion, 14 Reinforcements on 22 August 1916 aboard HMAT Wiltshire (A18). An A/Cpl whilst on the journey overseas, Beattie reverted to his enlistment rank of Private (Pte) upon arrival at Plymouth, England. In early 1917 Pte Beattie was detailed for clerical work at the Town Hall in Bapaume, France, where the 20th Battalion was billeted. On 25 March 1917 the Town Hall was destroyed by a delayed German mine, killing Pte Beattie and the other occupants. Pte Beattie was 27 years old.
The conditions immediately behind the front during the Somme winter. Infantrymen drinking coffee at the Australian Comforts Fund stall. The men serving at this stall are 3774 Private (Pte) A Gunn and
View of the wrecked Town Hall at Bapaume. Early on the morning of the 26 March 1917, two companies of the 22nd Battalion moved into Bapaume to billet in the Town Hall. Their move, was by accident, del
A working party of Australian soldiers passing in front of the Town Hall, in the Grand Place at Bapaume on 19 March 1917, just before the building was blown up by a German delayed action mine.
Studio portrait of 2897 Private (Pte) Stephen Henry Elphick, 55th Battalion, of Tumut, NSW. Pte Elphick, was a linesman prior to enlistment on 13 July 1916 and embarked aboard HMAT Ascanius on 25 Octo
Informal portrait of 5040 Private (Pte) Harry James Botten, 3rd Battalion (left) and Pte John Patrick Hall, 17th Battalion. Pte Hall was a bootmaker from Redfern, New South Wales, prior to enlistment
The advance on Bapaume and Bullecourt after the Germans had retreated to the Hindenburg Line. Shows Australians participating during this action. The infantry advancing across no-man's land; the con
