The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Members of the 2nd Pioneer Battalion filling in one of the several large craters caused by German mines on the main Bapaume Road between Le Sars and Bapaume. This crater, the nearest to Bapaume, was forty five feet wide and forty feet deep. In order to allow artillery and motor lorries to move forward, timber and corduroy tracks were hastilly built on either side of the cavity, which was later filled in after the advancing troops had pushed on. Identified, but some positiions unknown: 2716 Private Percival Thomas Sharrock, right foreground; Lieutenant Gilbert James Furnell (later killed at Swan Chateau near Ypres 19 September 1917), directly behind Sharrock; 4921 Sergeant A B Thomas, behind Furnell, standing straight; 4901 Private J J Stacey, position unknown.
Beersheba, Palestine. 1917-11. 572 Corporal John Thomas Reynolds, 11th Australian Light Horse (11ALH) (left), stretcher bearer 1955 Private Edgar Johns (middle) and an unknown serviceman, filling chaf
Group portrait of 2716 Private (Pte) Cecil Thomas Merlin, 24th Battalion and two unidentified soldiers (positions unknown). A butcher from Sebastopol via Ballarat, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Me
Group portrait of 2716 Private (Pte) Cecil Thomas Merlin, 24th Battalion and two unidentified soldiers (positions unknown). A butcher from Sebastopol via Ballarat, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Me
Abu Ghosh, Palestine. 1941-12-8. Group portrait of AIF senior officers, French and Polish clergy and the majority of the Roman Catholic chaplains posted to AIF units in the Middle East, in the courtya
Visually impaired servicemen, all patients from St Dunstan's Hospital, London and many Australian, pose with a wedding party in March 1917. Identified standing, left to right; 2809 (Private) Pte Alan
This file contains 80 black and white photographs collected by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood. These photographs include family photographs as well as official war photographs of the Western Fron
