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Photograph E00038 First World War, 1914-1918An 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.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The cookhouse adjoining an Officer's dugout in the ruins of the old church at Montauban, in France, in December 1916.
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.

Australians at Montauban, in France, in December 1916, cleaning off the winter mud from their boots and clothes.

An Australian soldier wearing an animal hide jerkin and rubber thigh boots, giving a German prisoner a cigarette at Montauban in December 1916.

View of the ruins of an old German concrete dugout at Messines, in Belgium. Inside the shelter were several human remains, and the pool in the foreground (not in view) was discoloured by the blood of

A view of the old battlefield of Mouquet Farm, in December 1916, looking from Kay Trench. Visible in the foreground is a sandbagged dugout.

The ruins of the village church. It was in this area on 29-20 July 1916, at Fromelles, that the 5th Australian Division launched an abortive attack.
