The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Portrait of 5810 Private (Pte) Leonard Stanley Dean, 17th Battalion. Born in Edmonton, England, he emigrated to Australia with his family when he was eight years old. A labourer of Bankstown, NSW, he enlisted on 13 June 1916 and sailed from Sydney on HMAT Ceramic with the 16th Reinforcements on 7 October 1916. He was killed in action on 3 May 1917, aged 28, at Bullecourt, France, and is commemorated on panel 82 of the Villers Bretonneux Memorial, France. This photograph is from an Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau file. The Bureau, which commenced operation in October 1915, sought to identify, investigate and respond to enquiries made regarding the fate of Australian personnel. It investigated the majority of personnel posted as wounded and missing on official Army lists, as well as written enquiries from concerned relatives and friends. Approximately 32,000 individual case files were opened for Australian personnel who were reported as wounded or missing during the First World War. The Bureau employed searchers to operate both at the front and in Britain. They searched official lists of wounded and missing, interviewed comrades of missing soldiers in hospitals and wrote to men on active service. Altogether 400,000 responses were sent back to those who placed enquiries with the Bureau.
Studio portrait of 162 Sergeant Reginald Spurgeon Blamey, 14th Battalion. A crockery packer of Albert Park, Victoria, he enlisted on 9 September 1914 and sailed with the 14th Battalion aboard HMAT Uly
Studio portrait of 3114 Private (Pte) Robert Harry Applin, 34th Battalion. Born in Hertfordshire, England, he emigrated to Australia at the age of 16 and settled with his family near Nyabing, WA, wher
Studio portrait of 2481 Private (Pte) John Ralph Wright, 60th Battalion. Pte Wright, of Kew, Vic, enlisted on 28 May 1915. Later promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal, Wright was killed in action in
Group portrait of men in civilian clothes which was published in The Illustrated London News in 1916 with the following identifications: (1) C Matthews, 9th Battalion; (2) Robinson, 2 Worcestshire; (3
Studio portrait of 977 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Arthur Price, 6th Battalion. Born in Birkenhead, England, he enlisted on 17 August 1914 in West Melbourne, Victoria and sailed with H Company on 19 October
Portrait of Frank Samuel Crowhurst, a salesman of Stepney, SA. He enlisted in the AIF on 20 August 1914 with the number 186 and sailed from Adelaide with F Company, 10th Battalion, aboard HMAT Ascaniu
