The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
England. 19138 Driver Frederick Walter (Smithy) Smith of Freeman's Reach NSW, the Cook for 107th Howitzer Battery outside the Cookhouse at No 17 Larkhill. Fred Smith later died on 6 June 1917 of wounds he received in action at Messine on 5 June 1917. (Donor J. Hardwicke)
Messines, Belgium. June 1917. Men of the 107th Howitzer Battery crowded around the cook's cart. The cook, 19138 Driver Frederick Walter Smith of Freeman's Reach NSW, was injured near here on 5 June 19
Ypres. 1917. Gunner Jock Barclay, a Signaller with 107th Howitzer Battery, on the telephone outside a sandbagged dugout. (Donor J. Hardwicke)
Messines, Belgium. June 1917. The remains of bombed buildings used as shelters by 107th Howitzer Battery. Note the YMCA sign on a tree. (Donor J. Hardwicke)
Ypres, Belgium. 1917. A bombed building on the Ypres battlefield used as an observation post by members of 107th Howitzer Battery, nicknamed "Surrey House". (Donor J. Hardwicke)
Studio portrait of 22105 Corporal William Stanley Cooper. An accountant of Albert Park, Victoria, he embarked with the 108th Battery, 23rd Howitzer Brigade, on HMAT Medic (A7) on 20 May 1916. He later
Le Bizet, France. 1917. Members of 107th Howitzer Battery standing in the remains of a bombed building. Note the siren mounted on the left wall of the building, possibly used for warning of gas shelli
