The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Unidentified members of a raiding party of A Company, 16th Battalion, after a successful raid. The three men in the foreground are wearing bags containing gas masks around their necks. Attached to the bags are replacement carbon cylinders for the masks. An improvised light is on a pole behind the men.
France, 1918. Scottish soldiers of the British Army waiting in a trench for a possible German counter-attack. The soldiers, some of them smoking, are wearing steel helmets and have bags containing the
Four unidentified soldiers, the one on the right holding an eel, which was caught in a pond behind the front line trenches, after the explosion of a Mill's bomb. Note the soldiers left and right are
France, 1918. Scottish soldiers of the British Army waiting in a trench for a possible German counter-attack. The soldiers, some of them smoking, are wearing steel helmets and have bags containing the
A German patrol in winter dress in the snow on the Western Front. Each of the men are wearing gas masks around their necks and except for the soldier far left, who is carrying a revolver, the rest of
Portuguese soldiers, some wearing gas mask bags around their necks, outside bagged trenches reinforced with timber. Duckboards are along the edge of the trenches.
Wearing flash protectors and gas masks, unidentified gunners carry out gun drill on board HMAS Sydney under the supervision of a lieutenant. Two men are firing the gun, three are cleaning the gun bar
