The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 12008 Private William Evans, 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Private Williams had been attached to the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company for approximately two weeks in Belgium, when on 10 July 1917, he was killed in action while constructing dugouts on the opposite side of the Yser Canal. His party was attacked by German troops, retreat made impossible by the destruction of the pontoon bridges and the entire party was killed or taken prisoner of war (POW). He is commemorated on the Nieuport Memorial, in the Province of West Flanders, Belgium. 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 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
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 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
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 6530 Private (Pte) Charles Stuart Henderson, 16th Battalion. A farmer of Denmark, WA, he enlisted on 19 June 1916 and sailed from Fremantle, WA, on HMAT Suffolk with the 21st Reinfo
The original grave of 211 Private (Pte) Thomas Orton, 2nd Division Salvage Company. Pte Orton, a grocer of California Gully, Bendigo, Victoria, who enlisted on 27 February 1915 and sailed from Melbour
