The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Soldiers gathered around at camp watching a movie. There are several rows of soldiers already seated, while two more are in the foreground carrying chairs, preparing to be seated for the night's entertainment. They still carrying their guns, objects at odds with the recreation depicted, reminding the viewer that this is a scene of men on active service. A makeshift movie screen has been set up, with the movie projector on a gallon drum.
Men load a cart in the background, four trees in the mid ground and stacks of shells, crates and barrels are lined up in stacks along the front of the composition. Verso: Depicts a tent tied at either
French First World War poster warning soldiers to resist the seduction of prostitutes in the street, as those men who succumbed to temptation might become infected with a venereal disease and die with
Two black and white engraved illustrations from the 'The Graphic', which was a British illustrated newspaper. The bottom engraving, which is the image of interest, and is titled 'Mounted Infantry esc
This print depicts the Australian Sudan Contingent landing at Suakin near the Red Sea on the 29th of March 1885. The New South Wales Government had offered assistance to the British in the Egyptian Su
Sriwhana Spong has devised a private alphabet using abstracted trench designs drawn from First World War maps, along with facsimiles of leaves collected by the artist in Belgium. The idea for an alpha
Home movies relating to the service of 18597 Captain Edward Michael Harold Heslin, 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit in Vietnam 1967-1968. Edward Heslin was selected to be the Engineer Captain in char
