The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 France on 19 July 1916, aged 23. 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 2082 Private (Pte) Thomas Alfred Reginald Wright, 1st Battalion. Pte Wright worked as a fireman prior to enlisting at Kangaroo Valley, NSW, on 27 April 1915. He was killed in action
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
Informal portrait of 518 Private Alexander John (Alec) McIntyre, B Company, 22nd Battalion. Pte McIntyre worked as a miner prior to enlisting in Casterton, Victoria, on 12 March 1915 and sailed from M
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 1336 Private (Pte) Martin Michael Dillon, 13th Battalion. A farm labourer of Junee Reefs, NSW, he enlisted on 18 November 1914 and sailed from Sydney on HMAT Seang Bee with the 2nd
