The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A shallow shell hole and radiating marks in a field near Corbie, the traces left after the explosion of a light German field gun shell capped with an instantaneous fuse, first fitted to these projectiles about the time of the Third Battle of Ypres. Since the shell (known in military slang as a 'daisy cutter') burst before entering the ground, its fragments were not smothered and were very deadly.
An unidentified soldier near Corbie, with his feet where a shell had fallen, illustrating the effect of a light German field gun shell nicknamed by the Australian troops 'a Daisy Cutter'. The shell wa
Before Amiens, this village in the Somme valley is here shown (from the south), the day after its capture in a local attack by the 4th, 6th and 11th Australian Infantry Brigades, and attached American
An M47A2 mustard bomb with a fuse adaptation for entering the jungle canopy. The M47 is a thin case bomb used for chemical bombardment. The M47A2 was designed to be able to receive liquid mustard (H)
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 addres
Informal portrait of 2608 Lance Corporal (LCpl) William (Jessie) Hilder Gregson, 7th Field Company Engineers, of Sydney, NSW. A surveyor for three years before enlisting in August 1915, LCpl Gregson l
Three Army nurses who had been held by the Japanese since early 1942 told Bill MacFarlane, ABC Field Unit, how pleased they were to be free once more. Left to right: Sister L. Whyte of Hay, NSW; Jean
