E00038 Accession Number: E00038

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An unidentified Australian soldier smoking a cigarette while cleaning the mud off an unexploded shell in an Australian Artillery camp at Montauban, in France, in December 1916.

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Accession Number
E00038
Photographer
Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
December 1916
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Australian Official Photograph
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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