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Item IDP10550.182
PhotographerThuillier, Louis
Place madeFrance: Picardie, Somme, Vignacourt
Date Madec 1916-1918
Copyright holderAustralian Capital Equity Pty Ltd
CollectionPhotograph
Credit lineCourtesy Kerry Stokes Collection, the Louis and Antoinette Thuillier Collection
Description Portrait of an unidentified Australian soldier on a despatch motorcycle. The soldier wears a sheepskin vest to ward off the cold in what was one of the coldest winters in decades on the Somme.

From the Thuillier collection of glass plate negatives. Taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier in Vignacourt, France during the period 1916 to 1918.

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Ern Lundgren says:

James David Renner SR SN 3395

Kathryn And Del says:

What a gift to our nation. Thank you. The men are home again

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