The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Near Bois de l'Abbe, France. 27 May 1918. Gassed Australian soldiers lying out in the open at an over crowded aid post near Bois l’Abbé. They have been gassed in the operations in front of Villers-Bretonneux. (Note by Sergeant A. Brooksbank, Gas NCO, 10th Australian Infantry Brigade: Examples of what should not be done. Casualties should have removed contaminated garments. Lying on the ground with contaminated clothes and not wearing respirators means that they are inhaling quantities of vapour and adding to their injuries).
Three Portuguese soldiers about to enter a chamber for gas mask drill at the Gas School at Marthes in France. A note by Sergeant A Brooksbank, Gas NCO, 10th Australian Infantry Brigade: Of general m
The Australian barrage on enemy territory to assist the attack on Hamel, by the 6th, 4th, and 11th Infantry Brigades, assisted by a Battalion of Americans. The picture was taken from the high ground a
Troopers cleaning a Lewis gun in a front line trench, while others keep watch (right). A foghorn is being used as a gas alarm (centre left). A note by Sergeant A Brooksbank, Gas NCO, 10th Australian
THE POSSIBILITY OF THE JAPANESE ARMY USING POISON GAS AGAINST OUR FORCES HAS NOT BEEN OVERLOOKED, AND ALL TROOPS ARE BEING TRAINED TO THE ACCUSTOMED WEARING OF RESPIRATORS. EVEN CLERICAL STAFFS AT CAM
Soldiers of the 45th Battalion wearing gas respirators in a trench at Garter Point, in the Ypres Sector. Identified, foreground working back: 2146 Corporal (Cpl) Horace Davies; 3696 Private (Pte) Thom
Korea. c. 1951. For weeks Communist propaganda notices have been left where UN troops could find them. The three being held by unidentified soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regime
