The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts four artillerymen on a battlefield working an 18 pounder gun while another figure, standing, looks through binoculars behind them. The action is taking place at the Third Battle of Ypres in Passchendaele. Bombs are exploding all around and two aircraft can be seen in the sky. The 18-pounder gun is set up on a gun carriage.
Harold Septimus Power (1877- 1951) was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He settled in Adelaide in 1898, where he was engaged as a political cartoonist with the 'Register' . He was appointed Official War Artist attached to the 1st Division AIF from September 1917 to March 1920. He served in France from September to December 1917 and in August 1918. He was subsequently engaged on various commissions for the Australian War Memorial until 1938, travelling frequently between England and Australia during this period.
Studio portrait of Honorary Lieutenant Harold Septimus Power. Born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1877, Power migrated to Australia with his family. Following initial training in art in Melbourne, Power
Depicts two horses loaded with eight 18-pounder shells, carried in canvas shell carriers. Power was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1877. When he was young his family immigrated to Australia and settl
Depicts a team of horses with the Australian 1st Division Artillery pulling 18 pounder guns up a hill on a road near Harbonnieres on the Western Front and soldiers on horseback riding into action. Po
Depicts the ruins of Corbie Abbey church and the village buildings of Corbie, with rubble everywhere. Corbie village is on the Somme and was close to the fighting, with AIF soldiers passing through so
Depicts three soldiers from the 1st Australian Division of the AIF sitting near the front of a thatch-roofed house peeling vegetables, the camp kitchen is in background. This is during the Third Battl
Power shows the tail end of a body of troops marching past a ruined church, followed by the travelling field cooker. The cooker is drawn by two horses with a mounted driver. The limber carries rations