The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A 3rd Australian Divisional Field Dressing Station at Kandahar Farm, on the afternoon of 7 June 1917, during the Battle of Messines. Note the third man from the right (with his back to the camera) is wearing privately purchased body armour and all the wounded on the stretchers have their legs splinted.
German prisoners at Messines, on the afternoon of 7 June 1917, carrying their own wounded to a field dressing station, while the British Mark IV tanks advanced towards the distant Messines Ridge, wher
A scene during the Battle of Messines, in Belgium, showing an Australian stretcher bearer (wearing glasses) assisting a wounded German prisoner towards a field dressing station in the St. Quentin Road
A wounded soldier lying on a stretcher at an Advanced Dressing Station, during the battle of Messines.
An informal group portrait of unidentified walking wounded, members of the 2nd Division, on their way to the dressing station. Note two injured men on stretchers (right).
Stretcher cases being sent away from the Third Divisional advanced dressing station at Halfway House on the Menin Road. The wounded were battle casualties from the attack earlier that morning by the
A view of La Douve Farm looking north towards Messines, in Belgium. This farm was captured by the 39th Battalion in the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917. The brick wall on the right is all that remai
