The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Herbert Crowther Foxton (left) and 2nd Lt Cecil Arthur Auchterlonie MC and bar (right), 25th Battalion. Lt (later Captain) Foxton, a watchmaker from Ireland, enlisted in Toowoomba, Queensland. He was gassed in October 1917 and later suffered serious shrapnel wounds to his face in July 1918. He was sent to hospital in England where he underwent a series of operations to reconstruct his face (see AWM photos P06131.001 - .012). Captain Foxton returned to Australia in 1921.
2nd Lt (later Lt) Auchterlonie, a clerk from Gympie, Queensland, was awarded the Military Cross for actions near Villers Bretonneux in July 1918. Later that month he was awarded a bar to his Military Cross. He was killed in action on 10 August 1918.
From the Thuillier collection of glass plate negatives. Taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier in Vignacourt, France during the period 1916 to 1918.
A hand coloured portrait of 1030 Lieutenant (Lt) Cecil Arthur Auchterlonie, 25th Battalion, one of the three Auchterlonie brothers from Inglewood Hill, near Gympie, Queensland. The youngest, 1030 Lt C
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth
Portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Herbert Crowther Foxton (left) and 2nd Lt Cecil Arthur Auchterlonie MC and bar (right), 25th Battalion. Lt (later Captain) Foxton, a watchmaker from Ireland, enlisted in To
Group portrait of officers from the 18th Battalion, many of whom are veterans of Gallipoli as indicated by the brass "A" on their colour patches. Identified are, back row: possibly Lieutenant (Lt) Eri
Group portrait of four officers from the 5th Battalion. Back row, left to right: unidentified; 1911 Lieutenant (Lt) Alexander Fulford Bechervaise MC. Front row: Captain Thomas Karran Maltby; Lt John W
Group portrait of officers from the 5th Battalion. Identified are, standing back row, 1911 Lieutenant (Lt) Alexander Fulford Bechervaise MC; and front row right, 1126 Lt Cecil David Chapman MM. (See a
Portrait of Chaplain (4th Class) James Patrick Gilbert MC (left), 15th Brigade, from Randwick, NSW and Captain Keith McKeddie Doig MC, 60th Battalion medical officer from Princes Hill, Victoria. Chapl
Portrait of 1747 Private (Pte), (later Lance Corporal) Thomas See MM, 52nd Battalion. A farmer from Childers in Queensland, Pte See was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field on 1 May 191
