The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australian Pioneers building a communication trench. Communication trenches led up to the front lines from points about a mile to the rear. While the 'trench' appears to be excavated, its sides are breastworks raised above the level of the surrounding ground. The soldier standing on the left is holding a saw, while the two kneeling men are fixing timber duckboards in place on the floor. The soldier in the background is wielding an oversized mallet. The Pioneer units in the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Divisions carried out engineering duties but also acted as infantry when required.
A group of Australian Pioneers preparing sandbags for use in constructing dugouts behind the trenches. Some of the men are loosening the soil with picks; others use spades to shovel it into the sandb
Mail has just arrived at a camp of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), on top of a hill in Korea. An unidentified soldier (front) reads a letter from home while sitting on the ed
Gallipoli Peninsula. c May 1915. An unidentified Australian soldier standing in a communication trench, either on 400 Platteau or near Bridges' Road. Note the men sleeping on the floor of the trench,
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. c May 1915. A soldier standing in a communication trench either on 400 Plateau or near Bridges' Road. Note the men sleeping on the floor of the trench and the hole dug out
Depicts soldiers from a Pioneer unit laying a duckboard track across muddy fields in a war damaged landscape, probably in the Ypres Salient, France in 1917. The soldiers are wearing sandbags around th
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-01-27. WESTERN AUSTRALIANS REPAIRING THE WING OF A RAAF BEAUFIGHTER AIRCRAFT. 8466 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT FRANK STEWART OF SUBIACO, ENGINEERING OFF
