The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Five unidentified members of the Australian Field Artillery placing netting and brambles in front of their gun in order to camouflage the effect of the gun blast. This is necessary when a gun is sunk low in the ground as the firing scorches the grass within a radius of several yards making the position an easily defined mark. Note in the background (centre) a heavily sandbagged shelter and a pair of binoculars and other equipment on its roof.
Two unidentified members of the Australian Field Artillery camouflaging the blast marks scorched on the grass by an 18 pounder gun. This is necessary when a gun is sunk low in the ground as the firin
An unidentified soldier near Corbie, with his feet where a shell had fallen, illustrating the effect of a light German field gun shell nicknamed by the Australian troops 'a Daisy Cutter'. The shell wa
Two unidentified Australian soldiers standing outside a dugout (right). Another soldier (left) is walking amidst the wire netting and brambles which camouflage one of the guns of a battery of the Aus
Two unidentified men sit on a shelter of doubtful security at Westhoek, during the fighting in the Ypres sector. Duckboards lie on the floor, the low walls are sandbagged and the curved iron roof is c
An improvised 18 pounder gun shelter used by the Australian Field Artillery. Note the sandbags in the foreground and what appears to be camouflage netting on the left.
KIMBERLEY, SOUTH AFRICA, C.1900. LOYAL TROOPS AT OTTO'S KOPJE WITH A FIELD GUN. A HELIOGRAPH FOR SIGNALLING CAN BE SEEN IN THE CENTRE OF THE PICTURE AND THERE IS A HEAVILY SANDBAGGED SHELTER ON THE RI
