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Photograph H09532 First World War, 1914-1918Abbeville, France. c. 1917. A civilian looks out from a window in the ruins of her house which was demolished during a German air raid. (Donor British Official Photograph L644)

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The immediate aftermath of a German air raid on the Dalby Road district, London, in July 1917. Civilian men are digging in the ruins of a collapsed building to recover children buried in the rubble.
Abbeville, France. c. 1917. A civilian looks out from a window in the ruins of her house which was demolished during a German air raid. (Donor British Official Photograph L644)

Singapore. A civilian with his nose and mouth covered walks through the rubble past the ruins of a building damaged during the air raids on the town by Japanese bombers.

During a sight seeing tour of the area, RAAF airmen stand amongst rubble inside a building left in ruins by damage from bombs dropped in German air raids.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. 1942-11-01. EXTENSIVE A.R.P. EXERCISES WERE CARRIED OUT BY 5,000 A.R.P. WORKERS IN SEVEN MUNICIPALITIES IN THE CITY OF MELBOURNE UNDER AIR-RAID CONDITIONS. THIS PATIENT WAS RESCU

Bailleul, France, 1919-06-14. A small group of civilian men, women and children (right) gather around the door of a hut erected in the main square of the ruined town to receive rations. Standing (left

Grief-stricken women lamenting over dead children in a devastated town after a German air raid. Coutin 1987 (132). This work was not published, but was intended for publication in 'Figaro', July 1917.
