The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 5129 Private (Pte) Eric Lang, 48th Battalion. A farmer of Donnybrook, WA, he enlisted on 6 January 1916 and sailed from Fremantle on HMAT Stropshire with the 16th Reinforcements on 31 March 1916. He was killed in action on 8 August 1916, near the windmill at Pozieres. He is commemorated on panel 146, Villers Bretonneux, 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. (ROH same portrait found at H06495)
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 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
The original grave of 5139 Private (Pte) Ernest Leslie Knowling, 10th Battalion, in the Tel El Kebir Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. An iron moulder of Broken Hill, NSW, he enlisted on 10 February 1916 and
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 1926 Private (Pte) Archibald Cooper, 6th Battalion. A wool classer of Prahran, Victoria, he enlisted on 11 January 1915 and sailed from Melbourne with the 5th Reinforcements aboard
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
