The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
One corner of the Detail Store of the Australian Ordnance Corps Depot. The word 'detail' is applied to those stores which came up from the Base in parcels, sacks or boxes all ready labelled and addressed to the Units requiring the stores, and consist of tools, technical instruments, electric torches, articles for repair of harness, cooking apparatus, waterproof covers, parts of vehicles, wheels and a thousand other items. The interior walls of this huge building were pitted and scared by shell fragments and cracked by explosion shocks. The compartments throughout resembled great, arched caverns of brick as seen in this photograph, not only on the ground floor, but in the upper storeys. Note the old German saw above Private Jim Barry, in charge of the Detail Store.
Egypt. c. 1915. Two soldiers, possibly members of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade, beside a stack of full sacks and rows of unpacked stores on the desert sand. The rations consist mainly of bottles and ca
Two unidentified Australian soldiers in the carpenters' tool store at the Australian Corps Technical School. On the shelves on the right are stores of tools, including handsaws, mallets and hammers.
Anzac Cove, Gallipoli. 1915-12. Soldiers, possibly members of No. 2 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, use hand tools to destroy stores at a Royal Engineers yard before the evacuation. (Origin
Gallipoli. 1915-12-19. Soldiers stand beside boxes of stores at the Army Service Corps (ASC) depot. Note the box labelled `Huntley and Palmers Biscuits Reading England'. The original print has been ma
Australian engineers, standing in a shell hole, the wall of which forms an entrance to the Cavalry Barracks at Ypres, in Belgium. The pitted state of the brick wall illustrates the spreading effect of
Two unidentified soldiers carrying bread to the Bulk Store of the Australian Field Bakeries at Rouen. From the Bulk Store it was packed in sacks and despatched by rail to the forward areas.
