The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Battalion, 10th Australian Infantry Brigade are seen here taking advantage of a rest at Dragoon Farm, near Ypres, after the Battle of Passchendaele Ridge, to bathe and oil their feet in order to obviate the malady. Identified, standing, left to right: 2311 Corporal (Cpl) Cyril Sydney Cosson (smoking cigarette, 1); 137 Lance Corporal (LCpl) G Bailey (2); 619 Private (Pte) F Clayton (3); 2136 Sergeant (Sgt) R W Richardson (4); 797 LCpl M E Cox (5); 2281 Sgt W Walker (facing camera with left hand doing up button of jacket, 6); 13595 Pte F Bell, Army Medical Corps (roll of bandage under left arm, 7). Sitting: 204 Pte A W Hunn (8); unidentified (9); 2562 Sgt H F Davis (10); 2297 Pte H L Booth (11); 2589 Pte A H Holmstrom (in front of Booth, 12); 844 Cpl O H Hansson (13); 5656 LCpl L M Badcock (partially obscured, 14); 2638 Pte T P Ready (15); and working on Badcock's feet is 16652 Pte L H Smith, Army Medical Corps (16). See E00942K for position of those named in this caption.
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
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
Meteren, France. 12 February 1918. Group portrait of the NCOs of the 1st Battalion, at Meteren. Left to right, back row: 756 Lance Corporal (LCpl) E. C. Vickery MM; 3651 LCpl H. Whybro; 4029 LCpl N. F
Neuve Eglise, Belgium. 26 January 1918. Group portrait of the NCOs of the 40th Battalion, AIF, at Neuve Eglise. Identified: 290 Corporal (Cpl) B. West (1); 33 Cpl A. J. Collis (2); 18 Lance Sergeant E
Meteren, France. 6 March 1918. Group portrait of the 12th Brigade Training School. Left to right, back row: first fourteen men unidentified; 1688 Private (Pte) H. R. Crocos; 1897 Pte C. H. Blyton; 230
Group portrait of the Headquarters Details and Signal Section of the 3rd Brigade. Left to right, back row: Lance Corporal (LCpl) E. Smith; Private (Pte) A. T. Ashenden; Sergeant (Sgt) M. M. Batt; 933
