The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 4299 Private Robert Percival Staley, 7th Battalion. A farm labourer of Maryborough, Victoria, he embarked on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915 with the 13th Reinforcements. A member of a mobile gun crew, he was killed on 15 April 1918, while standing up to shoot from a field post at a crossroad at Nieppe Forest, near Ypres. He was buried at the estaminet (inn) opposite top the field post, but no cross was erected. His grave was lost and in inquiries by the Red Cross Wounded and Missing Bureau, one eyewitness provided a map for the possible location of the grave.
An unidentified soldier sitting in the entrance to the shell damaged 'A La Nouvelle Briqueterie Estaminet', a pub or hotel, at a crossroad known as Estaminet Corner located near the front line. At th
PRISONER OF WAR MAIL BEING SORTED AT THE CENTRAL RED CROSS BUREAU FOR INQUIRIES AND SERVICE FOR PRISONERS OF WAR. AN AVERAGE OF 3,000 LETTERS IS RECEIVED EACH DAY. (NEGATIVE BY CRANSTONE).
Grave portrait of 9534 Sapper (Spr) Robert Power, 11th Field Company Australian Engineers, of Ballarat, Vic. A prospector prior to enlistment he embarked with No.4 Section from Outer Harbor, SA on boa
Egypt. November 1941. A cross and wreath mark the grave in the Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Plot 22, Row A, Grave 2, of 695 Flying Officer Percival Roy Bothwell RAAF, of No. 3 Squadron RAAF who died 2
Studio portrait of 3032 Private (later Corporal) Andrew Boyd, 24th (later 8th) Battalion, of Wodonga, Victoria. An acting accountant prior to enlistment, he embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealt
The grave of 12104 Private (Pte) Ralph Denver, 9th Australian Field Ambulance, of Sydney NSW. A hospital attendant prior to enlistment, Pte Denver embarked from Sydney on HMAT Hororata on 2nd May 191
