The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Men of the 40th Battalion having their feet attended to at Dragoon Farm, near Ypres, after several days' fighting in the mud during the Battle of Passchendaele. Identified are: 84 Corporal O H Hansson (left foreground, 1); 5656 Lance Corporal L M Badcock (beside Hansson, looking at camera, 2); 2638 Private (Pte) T P Ready (beside Badcock, 3); 204 Pte A W Hunn (behind Ready, looking at camera, 4); unidentified (beside Hunn, 5); 2589 Pte A H Holmstrom (beside unidentified, looking at camera, 6); 2562 Sergeant H F Davis (beside Ready, in front of unidentified, 7); 16650 Pte L H Smith (in front of Ready, partially obscured, 8); 987 Pte J T Bradley (behind Smith, looking on, 9); Captain W I Clark, Regimental Medical Officer, (second from right, foreground, attending to Hansson's left foot, 10); 13595 Pte F Bell (right foreground, beside Clark, 11). See E00939K for position of those named in this caption.
The mud and slush throughout the Ypres Sector kept the feet of the troops in a continual state of dampness and caused the complaint of 'trench feet' to become fairly general. Members of the 40th Batta
Reference image only to provide position detail for those named. This image is not for sale. The mud and slush throughout the Ypres Sector kept the feet of the troops in a continual state of dampness
Members of C Company, 17th Battalion marching to the trenches along the main road near the Franco-Belgian border. Identified, foreground, left to right: 6393 Private (Pte) Norman Maynard (killed in ac
Members of C Company, 45th Battalion, in the advanced trenches at Garter Point, in the Ypres Sector. Identified, right to left, working back up the trench: 2138 Private (Pte) William Ernest Black; Pte
Group portrait of B Company of the 22nd Battalion with their rifles and lewis guns. Back row, left to right (standing): Company Quartermaster Sergeant R. Kay; Sergeant (Sgt) E. R. Bregenzer DCM; Corpo
Troops of A Company, 27th Australian Infantry Battalion, 2nd Australian Division, in the trenches in the second line just in front of Albert Redoubt, with the advance line near Zonnebeke showing in th
