The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The open air workshop of the 2nd Australian Pioneer Battalion in the Reserve area at Swan Chateau, in the Ypres sector. Identified, left to right in the foreground: 2925 Private (Pte) Walter Parker Presley; 3411 Pte Thomas Norcross; 742 Pte Robert Samuel Tuckerman; 1136 Pte Simeon Booth (killed at Warfusee on 10 August 1918); 2382 Pte Frederick Mathew Greehalgh (died of disease at No. 2 Australian General Hospital at Le Havre on 19 October 1918); Pte R E Smith (squatting); 184 Pte Albert Eke.
The cooks of the 2nd Australian Pioneer Battalion preparing the evening meal at Swan Chateau, in the Ypres Sector. Identified, left to right: Private (Pte) R Tuckerman (standing in background); Pte J
Studio portrait of 2382 Private (Pte) Frederick Matthew Greenhalgh, 18th Battalion, of Singleton NSW - formerly of Nottinghamshire, England. A miner prior to enlisting in July 1915, Pte Greenhalgh emb
Studio portrait of 2428 Private (Pte), (later Lance Corporal) Edwin (Ted) Greenhalgh, 3rd Battalion, of Singleton, NSW. Pte Greenhalgh, a farmer prior to enlistment embarked from Sydney with the 7t
Studio portrait of 59728 Private William Dirksen (William Nicolas Dirksen), 55th Battalion. A fireman of North Ryde NSW (originally of Amsterdam, Holland), he enlisted on 4 June 1918 and sailed with t
Signallers of the 41st Battalion preparing the midday meal in Mutton Gully, near Sailly-le-Sec, the day following their arrival in the sector where the Australian troops held up the German advance on
Members of the 2nd Australian Pioneer Battalion making a wagon track from planks of wood at Chateau Wood, in the Ypres Sector, to allow the passage of traffic deeper into the freshly captured ground,
