Immediately in front of this village ran the southern portion of the line of the 1st Anzac Corps ...

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Accession Number E00510
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Gueudecourt
Date made May 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Immediately in front of this village ran the southern portion of the line of the 1st Anzac Corps during most of the winter on the Somme battlefield. Gueudecourt was incessantly shelled by the Germans, and was therefore entirely avoided, except by a few adventurous spirits.