The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The shelling of No. 7 Platoon, B Company, 9th Battalion billets, in the reserve line at Borre, when the men were forced by the Germans to leave their billets and take up a position at a safe distance in the open fields. Lieutenant Chester was in command. Two men, Private (Pte) A. Reeves and Pte Ferguson were killed whilst leaving the billets for the above position. Identified: 7016 Pte R. G. Markham, killed 10 August 1918 (right, left arm resting on knee); 7329 Pte H. Townsend (left, back); 6567 Pte R. King (right, back to camera). (On the right, in front of the shell smoke, are some of the stakes of a newly erected wire entanglement).
A group of unidentified troops of the 1st Australian Infantry Brigade resting in an open field and watching the shelling (background centre) which temporarily drove them from their billets. The Churc
ANTIRIGAN, NEW GUINEA, 1943-09-25. MEN OF THE 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY ENTRENCHED IN THE MOST FORWARD POSITION IN THE MARKHAM VALLEY. THEY ARE, LEFT TO RIGHT:- NX92193 SAPPER R. MCKINTOCK;
Studio portrait of 2042 Private (Pte) Edgar Reynold Townsend, 6th Battalion from Creswick, Victoria. An 18 year old blacksmith prior to enlisting on 6 January 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 5
Members of the 20th Battalion AIF wearing life preservers on board a troopship en route from Egypt to France. Seated left is 4252 Private (Pte) Lyle Comyn Reeves (later Sergeant): Standing, from left:
Pair of black leather knee boots with fabric boot straps. One metal spur with leather straps on the right boot. Both boots have leather straps attached to the top back. These knee boots were worn by
Group portrait of members of 13 Platoon, C Company, 58/59 Infantry Battalion. Identified, back row, left to right: Private (Pte) R Wyatt; Corporal A Dempster; Pte A L Barrat; Lance Sergeant Oldknow; P
