The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The effect of a 9.2 inch British shell on a German reinforced concrete dugout. The dugout was about ten feet below the surface of the ground, and its roof and walls were over two feet thick. Identified, at right, is Captain (ex 7306) Leslie Russell Blake MC, PM, who was awarded the Polar Medal for services with the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914. He was a friend of Captain Frank Hurley, the Australian Official Photographer and fellow polar expeditioner. Blake died of wounds on 3 October 1918 near Estrees during the Somme advance. The white purple and white of his Military cross and pure white of his Polar Medal ribbons are just visible on his jacket pocket. Official records do not identify the photographer but it was most likely Frank Hurley.
Portrait of Captain James Francis "Frank" Hurley, photographer and author, the official photographer to the first Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-13. During the First World War Captain Hurley w
Captain (Cpt) James Francis (Frank) Hurley walking along a path in front of a cottage in the village of Khurbet Deiran. Cpt Hurley is wearing the white ribbon of the Polar Medal received for his servi
A view of the moat surrounding Ypres, showing the stricken trees on the ramparts and the shell pitted wall. The bridge in the foreground was constructed by Australian engineers to lessen the pressure
A group of local villagers surrounding a car at Ludd , a village on on the Philistine Plain. Captain Frank Hurley, an Australian Official Photographer is standing on the car's running board at centre
Studio portrait of Captain (Capt) Eric Webb, 7th Field Company Engineers, who enlisted in Sydney but was originally of Papanui, New Zealand, and James Francis (Frank) Hurley. The portrait was probably
Studio portrait of 7306 Gunner (Gnr) Leslie Russell Blake, 5th Field Artillery Brigade, of East Malvern, Vic. A geological surveyor who had been part of Sir Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expedition from
