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Photograph C00419 First World War, 1914-1918Portrait of Frenchwoman Madame Bermesch laughing in the doorway of her house in a village near the Western Front, where a number of Australian troops of the 1st Battalion were billeted.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Frenchwoman Madame Bermesch and Lieutenant Horace Weston Beavis, 1st Battalion, standing outside her house in a village near the Western Front, where he and some other Australian soldiers were billeted.
Portrait of Frenchwoman Madame Bermesch laughing in the doorway of her house in a village near the Western Front, where a number of Australian troops of the 1st Battalion were billeted.

Group portrait of six members of a French family, encompassing three generations, with whom some men of the 1st Battalion were billeted while on the Western Front. Identified left to right: Petit Jea

France. December 1916. Madame standing in front of her house in Armentieres. The house was used as a billet by members of the 39th Battalion. Its shutters are closed to prevent breakage by concussion

Two unidentified Australian soldiers, probably artillerymen, stand in the street and chat to a young Frenchwoman who leans out of her window in a village behind the lines.

An old Frenchwoman serves coffee to six unidentified Australian and Scottish soldiers at an estaminet (small cafe) in her village, which is within 800 yards of the trenches in a comparatively quiet se

Members of the 1st Australian Lines of Communication (L of C) Recovery Section standing near a trailer loaded with a Hudson bomber aircraft wreck. Some trucks are nearby probably to retrieve any useab
