The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Carefully made up and packed for easier transport in sandbags, rations were dumped daily in a sheltered position from which the ration fatigue parties collected and carried them to the troops in the front line. Here a fatigue party of Australians is seen collecting the rations before setting out for the return journey to their comrades engaged in the fighting. Ration carrying at Ypres was mostly hardship.
'Factory Corner' near Flers, photographed on 15 May 1917. It was here the 22nd Battalion had their Headquarters during the operations at Flers some months earlier. The country around was devoid of lan
GALLIPOLI. 1915-12. BOULDER DUMPS AT THE TOP OF ALLAH GULLY, LOOKING TOWARDS SILT SPUR. THE DUMPS ARE COMPOSED OF EARTH FROM TRENCHES AND TUNNELS, CARRIED THERE IN SANDBAGS BY FATIGUE PARTIES. (DONOR
A water parade in Victoria Gully, Anzac, adjoining the 6th Field Ambulance Camp. Water being collected in all types of cans by fatigue parties to be carried up to the Lone Pine trenches, which are si
Two unidentified Scottish soldiers standing on the road side near a post located on the Menin Road. During the Third Battle of Ypres wounded were collected here for removal to a Dressing Station. No
Ploegsteert Wood, Belgium. 26 December 1917. Men of the 22nd Battalion, laying down wire entanglements, behind the line at Ploegsteert Wood. Hill 63 is seen in the background. The men were living in h
Ploegsteert Wood, Belgium. 26 December 1917. A party of the 22nd Battalion, constructing apron wire entanglements as a part of the rear defences of this sector. The were living in hutments at Kortepyp
