The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Lieutenant W Forster (right), reporting for duty after returning from leave in England. He was killed in action (KIA) few days later on 3 May 1917. Lieutenant Colonel FWD Forbes CMG DSO, smoking a cigarette (left) and Captain O Jones with back to camera. Jones was killed in action on 4 May 1917.
An informal portrait of the remaining original officers of 21st Battalion on the anniversary of the unit leaving Australia taken at Mametz Camp. From left to right are: Captain (Capt) RV Linton, Capt
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick William Dempster Forbes DMG DSO, Commanding Officer 21st Battalion AIF, outside his Battalion Headquarters at Vaulx-Vraucourt. A plank of wood is in front of him across t
Two unidentified members of the 21st Battalion support line at Vaulx-Vraucourt- Bullecourt sector standing amongst the debris. The soldier on the right has his left hand in the pocket of his a great
The ruined house, which when intact, was used as the 21st Battalion Headquarters from about 5 am to 8 pm on the 20 March 1917, during the unit's attack on Noreuil. The 6th Brigade Commander, General
General JG Robertson CMG DSO, commanding the 6th Infantry Brigade, saying farewell to the first batch of 1915 men leaving the unit en route for Australia, at Nallines. The regimental flags can be see
Men of the 21st Battalion, AIF, route marching on the desert. The officer in centre is Lieutenant George Furner Langley, DSO (later Lieutenant Colonel).