Soldiers of the 45th Battalion wearing gas respirators in a trench at Garter Point, in the Ypres ...

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Accession Number E00825
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres, Menin Road, Garter Point
Date made 27 September 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Soldiers of the 45th Battalion wearing gas respirators in a trench at Garter Point, in the Ypres Sector. Identified, foreground working back: 2146 Corporal H Davis; 3696 Private (Pte) Thomas J Barrow; 5330 Pte Arthur Benfell. (Note by Sergeant A Brooksbank, Gas NCO, 10th Australian Infantry Brigade: 'Alert' and 'Alternative Alert' positions of wearing respirator haversack of small box respirator of modern practical utility).