EZ0018 Accession Number: EZ0018

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Informal group portrait of eight unidentified infantrymen of the 2nd Australian Division. The group have stopped to chat and smoke a cigarette while moving away from the front line. The four men to the left are carrying a full kit, with their bedrolls thrown over their shoulders. The first Australian battalions moved into the front line on the Western Front on 7 April 1916.

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Accession Number
EZ0018
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
c 1916
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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