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Abandoned trench, the Somme
Art
Depicts an abondoned trench on the Somme. The trench is in the foreground, with smashed trees on the edge and there are Nissan huts and tents in the background. The portion of the trench depicted is p...ART09912
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A battery of the 3rd Australian Divisional Artillery established in an open position near ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A battery of the 3rd Australian Divisional Artillery established in an open position near Vaux-sur-Somme. Left to right: 31477 Gunner (Gnr) John Thomas Trim (died of wounds 30 March 1918); 19675 Gnr H...E01864
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A detachment of the 5th Brigade passing through the infantry on the first objective and advancing ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A detachment of the 5th Brigade passing through the infantry on the first objective and advancing with its allotted Mark V* Male tank towards the third objective near La Motte en Santerre (six miles f...E03884
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Advanced dressing station at Smith's Farm, near Corbie
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the dressing station of the 6th Australian Field Ambulance in May 1918 amongst farm buildings belonging to the Smith family. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidel...ART16250
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Advance dressing station, 2nd Field Ambulance
Art
Depicts the advance dressing station of the Australian Forces 2nd Field Ambulance, with a motor ambulance in the background. In the foreground there is a table with medical supplies arranged on it, a ...ART19763
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A file of the 56th Battalion in process of transfer to the northern side of the Somme near ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A file of the 56th Battalion in process of transfer to the northern side of the Somme near Clery-sur-Somme. While maintaining the attempts to cross the Somme marshes, General Monash transferred the 2n...E03201
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A general view of the city of Albert situated on the River Ancre near its junction with the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
A general view of the city of Albert situated on the River Ancre near its junction with the Somme. The city was severly damaged by artillery fire in early 1916 during the fighting between British and ...C04922
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A German sniper killed in the advance towards the Crucifix at the Calvaire Cross Roads, near ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A German sniper killed in the advance towards the Crucifix at the Calvaire Cross Roads, near Bray, where the 9th Brigade experienced heavy fighting on 22 August 1918. The Crucifix marked the approxima...E03061
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A group of Australian soldiers on the hills overlooking Corbie, at the junction of the Somme and ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A group of Australian soldiers on the hills overlooking Corbie, at the junction of the Somme and Ancre Rivers.E04665
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Aircraft Tachometer : German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte)
Technology
Maker: Morell, Wilhelm
Dial face from a German aircraft tachometer marked "4" TO "16". The face is white with black numerals. 97 mm dia. On the reverse is written "Fokker No.863. Brought down by a British aviator at Flers,...REL/04359
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Amiens Cathedral
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the Amiens Cathedral and surrounding village buildings. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Ho...ART03002
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Among the poppies
Art
Maker: Boyd, Penleigh
The crumpled body of a young fallen soldier lying near a tree amongst a tangle of poppies. He lies with arms outstretched, his slouch hat and rifle abandoned on the grass beside him. This work is one ...ART50232
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An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive. A powerful factor in weakening the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive. A powerful factor in weakening the German thrust across the old Somme battlefield was the continuous bombing by British aircraft. Both Nos 2 ...E01882
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An aerial view of Pozieres after extensive artillery bombarded by both sides during the First ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown British Official Photographer
An aerial view of Pozieres after extensive artillery bombarded by both sides during the First Battle of the Somme. The 2nd and 4th Australian Divisions were at the time in possession of the village an...J00268
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An Australian buying winkles (molluscs) from a French hawker in a village on the Somme where his ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An Australian buying winkles (molluscs) from a French hawker in a village on the Somme where his battalion was resting during the winter of 1916-1917. Note the donkey on the right.E00048
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An Australian soldier standing on the remains of a carriage destroyed during the Battle of the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
An Australian soldier standing on the remains of a carriage destroyed during the Battle of the Somme.H00475A
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Anzac Day marching banner : 5 Machine Gun Battalion Association
Heraldry
Maker: Abel Screen Printers
5 Machine Gun Battalion Association banner. The banner is made from two layers of black cotton fabric, edged on all sides with a 50 mm yellow furniture fringe. There are black and yellow screen printe...RELAWM17353.001
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A photograph taken on a rainy day from a position near the Observatory on the Bray-Corbie Road, ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A photograph taken on a rainy day from a position near the Observatory on the Bray-Corbie Road, about a mile from Bray. Vaire-sous-Corbie is on the right and Vaux-sur-Somme on the left. Between these ...E01945
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A portion of the communal cemetery at Frechencourt, Department of the Somme, France on the Amiens ...
Photograph
A portion of the communal cemetery at Frechencourt, Department of the Somme, France on the Amiens to Albert Road, showing graves of soldiers of the 4th Australian Division Field Artillery Brigade and ...P01122.008
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Armoured car
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the Austin Armoured 1918 Pattern armoured car, with modified wheels and armoured cabinet at rear, on the Bapaume Road near Albert. In front is a partially sketched motor vehicle with its cabri...ART03511
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A scene in , showing the houses wilfully destroyed by the Germans during their withdrawal on the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A scene in , showing the houses wilfully destroyed by the Germans during their withdrawal on the Somme. The village was later made the battle headquarters of the 7th Infantry Brigade in the capture of...E00418
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A sick parade at Eaucourt L'Abbaye, during the advance on the Somme in the winter of 1917. ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A sick parade at Eaucourt L'Abbaye, during the advance on the Somme in the winter of 1917. 'Trench feet' was the chief complaint. Note the soldier with his legs enclosed in sandbags as a temporary pro...E00233
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AULT ET ONIVAL, FRANCE. 1915. GROUP PORTRAIT OF MEMBERS OF THE 4TH ARMY INFANTRY SCHOOL. SERGEANT ...
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AULT ET ONIVAL, FRANCE. 1915. GROUP PORTRAIT OF MEMBERS OF THE 4TH ARMY INFANTRY SCHOOL. SERGEANT R.C. SWANN IS SEATED 4TH ROW BACK, 3RD FROM THE LEFT.P00276.002
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Australian mail arriving at a rest billet in Bray-sur-Somme.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Australian mail arriving at a rest billet in Bray-sur-Somme.E00024
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Australian mule transport in the Somme winter mud at Montauban.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Australian mule transport in the Somme winter mud at Montauban.E00036
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Australian transport lines making their way through the mud between Mametz and Montauban, in the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Australian transport lines making their way through the mud between Mametz and Montauban, in the Somme area.E00795
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A view of Fritz's Folly, the front line, Somme winter. A sunken road forming part of the German ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A view of Fritz's Folly, the front line, Somme winter. A sunken road forming part of the German front line on the sector attacked by the 1st and 3rd Battalions on the night of 4 November 1916. The att...E00578
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A view of Sailly-le-Sec, in the valley of the Somme, showing the Australian front line trenches ...
Photograph
A view of Sailly-le-Sec, in the valley of the Somme, showing the Australian front line trenches on the hill to the left, where the 3rd Division had made its first appearance on the Somme battleground.E04667
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A view of the Somme Valley from the high ground near Vaux-sur-Somme, looking directly towards ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A view of the Somme Valley from the high ground near Vaux-sur-Somme, looking directly towards Mallard Wood, with Sailly Laurette behind it and the village of Sailly-le-Sec on the left. At this time th...E01863
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Basilique d'Albert
Art
Maker: Augis, Marcel
Ruined basilique (church with special privileges from the Pope) at Albert on the River Somme, France. A view of the bomb-damaged church of Notre Dame de Brebieres, with the damaged virgin hanging on i...ART12267
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Bataille de la Somme, Bois de Thiepval
Art
Maker: Mansard, Paul
Depicts a badly war-damaged landscape , with smashed and burnt trees and birds circling overhead at the Thiepval Woods after the battle of the Somme, in France.ART50201
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Bataille de la Somme, Pozieres
Art
Maker: Mansard, Paul
A town street in Poziere, with trees and a church. Paul Mansard was a French artist. This etching was presented to the War Memorial by Sister Constance Adelaide Stone MBE, RRC, a nurse, who enlisted i...ART12265
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56 Battalion colour patch : Private C J Brill, 56 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Unit colour patch for the 56th Battalion. The vertically aligned rectangular patch is made of two parallel strips of colour, white and green. The white strip is made of wool flannelette and the green ...RELAWM14076.004
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Battle of Fromelles
Art
Maker: Wheeler, Charles
Depicts a panoramic view of the Sugarloaf Salient area at Fromelles, with men of 5th Division AIF crossing No Man's Land towards the German trenches. Shell bursts and explosions can be seen above the...ART07981
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BAZENTIN, FRANCE, 1917-06. RUSSIAN NAVAL GUN CAPTURED BY GERMANS ON THEIR MARCH TO RIGA IN ...
Photograph
BAZENTIN, FRANCE, 1917-06. RUSSIAN NAVAL GUN CAPTURED BY GERMANS ON THEIR MARCH TO RIGA IN LATVIA, USED BY THE GERMANS AGAINST THE BRITISH AND RECAPTURED BY THE BRITISH ON THE SOMME.P00260.004
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Before Amiens, this village in the Somme valley is here shown (from the south), the day after its ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Before Amiens, this village in the Somme valley is here shown (from the south), the day after its capture in a local attack by the 4th, 6th and 11th Australian Infantry Brigades, and attached American...E02665
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Bei Unseren Helden ad Somme [With our heroes on the Somme]
Art
Maker: Erdt, Hans Rudi Hollerbaum & Schmidt
A German First World War propaganda poster that advertises a German film, "Bei Unseren Helden ad Somme [With our heroes on the Somme]". This film was produced in response to the British film "The Batt...ARTV10348
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Belgian Croix de Guerre : Major R H Norman, 12 Infantry Brigade, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Belgian Croix de Guerre. Unnamed as issued.REL41635.009
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Bellicourt: entrance to St Quentin Tunnel
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the entrance to the St Quentin tunnel taking the canal through the hill at Bellicourt near the Hindenburg Line on the Western Front. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of th...ART03517
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Bellicourt tunnel
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
By September 1918, allied forces had pushed the Germans back to the Hindenburg Line. In part, this defensive line followed the route of the St Quentin Canal. Near Bellicourt, the canal ran underground...ART12437
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Bivouac in the Somme Valley
Art
Depicts two soldiers in front of a tent, one seated and one standing. The tent is in a forest clearing in France. Two additional tents are behind the front one. George Bell was appointed official war ...ART92140
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Brassard : Lieutenant M S Fox, 186 (Special) Company, Royal Engineers
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Special Brigade brassard made of eleven vertical strips of woollen fabric in a continuous sequence; green, white, red. One end of the brassard forms a tongue, while the other is full-width. A blackene...RELAWM16878
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BRAYE, FRANCE, 1914-1918 WAR. BRIDGE ACROSS THE SOMME.
Photograph
Maker: Templeman, Norman Kingsley
BRAYE, FRANCE, 1914-1918 WAR. BRIDGE ACROSS THE SOMME.P00098.003
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Bray, France. September 1918. A recaptured tank near Bray, on the Somme.
Photograph
Bray, France. September 1918. A recaptured tank near Bray, on the Somme.P00520.003
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Bridge into Peronne
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the ruins of the bridge into Peronne blown up by retreating Germans. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century....ART12628
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Bridge rebuilt at south Peronne
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a temporary timber bridge built across the Somme River in place of the wrecked bridge, with timber revetments on the banks and a truck travelling across. Arthur Streeton is best known as one ...ART03519
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Brigade headquarters
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a bunker with a roof of sheets of corrugated iron weighed down with sandbags, sand bag walls, a sentry on duty, chimney pipes above the roof, which was used as the headquarters of an unidentif...ART03532
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Brigadier General Harold Elliott
Art
Portrait of Brigadier General Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, Commanding 15th Brigade (earlier also 7th Battalion and 1st Brigade), 1st Australian Imperial Force. Elliott was at the...ART03182
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Brigadier General Iven Giffard MacKay
Art
Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Brigadier General (later Major General Sir) Iven Giffard Mackay, CMG, DSO, MID (x4), Commanding, 1st Infantry Brigade, Western Front, (later North Africa) 1st Australian Imperial Force,...ART02990
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British intelligence and instructional papers relating to James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1915-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Unknown Various
British intelligence and instructional papers relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant-Colonel James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1915-1917. This file is comprised of British intelligence and...AWM2018.785.68
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British military pamphlets relating to James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1916-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Unknown
British military pamphlets relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant-Colonel James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1916-1918. This file contains: Pamphlet titled 'General Instructions for the O...AWM2018.785.74
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British planes flying towards the Lines over the Somme 1918
Art
Maker: Carline, Richard
Depicts a painting of either Australian Flying Corps (AFC) or the British Royal Flying Corps, biplanes flying over river valley in moonlight, Somme, Western Front during the First World War. The AFC w...ART50032
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Lance Corporal J A McDonnell, 6 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-1920. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL31207.002
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Private E D Hood, 29 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/02892.001
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Private W H Bain, 3 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL31729.002
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Bunker entrance
Art
Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Entrance to a bunker on the Somme in France, the red colour suggesting vegetation re-growth. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefields of Fr...ART19590
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Canal, Somme Valley near Belloy sur Somme
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the canal near Belloy sur Somme. The canal is in the foreground with the Somme Valley in the background. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 t...ART03014
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CANBERRA, ACT. 1948-11-17. LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR BERNARD FREYBERG VC KCB GCMG KBE DSO, GOVERNOR ...
Photograph
Maker: Wilson, D H
CANBERRA, ACT. 1948-11-17. LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR BERNARD FREYBERG VC KCB GCMG KBE DSO, GOVERNOR GENERAL OF NEW ZEALAND, AND LADY FREYBERG, NEAR THE PAINTING OF THE SOMME VALLEY BY ARTHUR STREETON ON ...133736
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CANBERRA, ACT. 1950-10-31. MR G. NICHOLSON, CURATOR OF THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, POINTING OUT ...
Photograph
Maker: Wilson, D H
CANBERRA, ACT. 1950-10-31. MR G. NICHOLSON, CURATOR OF THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, POINTING OUT FEATURES OF INTEREST ON THE PLAN MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, 1918, TO VISITORS FROM THE SOUTH AFR...134366
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Cap badge, 12 (Nelson) Regiment : Lance Corporal G A Swanson, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Heraldry
Maker: Gaunt, J R
Brass cap badge for 12 (Nelson) Regiment. A circular badge featuring a stag with one leg raised within a voided centre, enclosed by an inner band with the words 'NELSON INFANTRY', flanked by a pair of...REL35030
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c. 1917. A portrait of 254 Private Archibald Scott, 56th Battalion. Private Scott was killed on ...
Photograph
c. 1917. A portrait of 254 Private Archibald Scott, 56th Battalion. Private Scott was killed on 1918-05-21 and he is buried in the Crouy British War Cemetery, Crouy-Sur-Somme, France. This portrait is...P01920.006
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Captain Frederick James
Art
Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
Depicts a side profile of Captain Frederick James, RMO, AAMC of the 56th Battalion.ART03562
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Captain Percy Lay
Art
Captain Percy Lay, MC, DCM, MM, 8th Battalion Australian Imperial Forces, served through the Gallipoli campaign as a private. He reached France with the Battalion early in 1916 and fought with it on t...ART03184
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Captain Walter Gilchrist
Art
Maker: Rodway, Florence
Captain Walter Richard Gilchrist, MC, 6 Fd Coy Engnrs AIF; Western Front Sydney, New South; 6th Field Company Engineers;ART06048
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Captured German casualty clearing station, 1918
Art
Depicts a captured German Casualty Clearing Station with several tents and soldiers being carried on stretchers into the larger tent in the background. There are two soldiers in the right foreground, ...ART03397
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Carved head of a German soldier : 13 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Head of a German soldier carved from chalk. The soldier wears a pair of glasses and has a moustache. The glasses and eyes, mouth, moustache and field cap have all been highlighted with black ink and t...RELAWM00744
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Cecil (Jack) Hazlitt
Art
Maker: Westwood, Bryan
Jack put his age up to enlist in 1915 and arrived in Gallipoli as a signaler with the 28th Battalion. He went to France in 1916 and joined the Signals Company of the 4th Division. He was severally she...ART90418
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Christmas cards and postcards
Digitised Collection
Maker: Various
This file includes 13 Christmas cards and postcards received or sent by the Birdwood family between 1915 and 1939. Christmas cards from other army personnel as well as unit cards are included in the f...RCDIG0000522
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Cigarette lighter : Gunner E V MacKellar, 8 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Brass plated circular cigarette lighter with textured finish. It is embossed on one side with '1918' and on the other 'Somme'. The top of the lighter has a flint wheel for ignition and a small valve f...REL31358
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Cleaning harness, l'Hallue Valley
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the horses and soldiers of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Australian Divisional train, with harnesses and saddlery on rails with two soldiers are cleaning the harnesses and saddles. Ar...ART03483
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Collection related to the service of Alfred George Brown MC
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
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 ...A00758
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Collection related to the service of 704 Ernest Charles Barnes
Photograph
Maker: Barnes, Ernest Charles
Group portrait of unidentified members of the 102nd Howitzer Battery having breakfast north of Amiens before entraining for the Somme, where the Australians went into action near Pozieres. (From the c...C00457
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Collection relating to the service of 1512, 1578, VX55289, V7592, V24239 Charles James (Nobby) Clarke MM DCM, 14th Battalion.
Photograph
FRANCE, 1916-17. ONE OF THE WATER-FILLED TRENCHES AT THE SOMME DURING THE WINTER OF 1916-17.P00308.002
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Coloured pencils contained in shaving stick holder : Sapper L Vasco, 11 Field Company Engineers AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Silver cylindrical shaving stick holder with lid. Embossed on the outside is the text 'SHAVING ERASMIC STICK'. 15 coloured pencils the majority of which have the branding 'Te FANTASTIQUE' are held i...REL/03408.007
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Communication trench
Art
Maker: Boyd, Penleigh
Depicts three soldiers in the trenches having a smoko with a group of soldiers above the trenches in the background.ART50243
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Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George : Lieutenant Colonel H F White, 35 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Garrard & Co Ltd
Neck decoration for a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. Unnamed as issued.REL42604.001
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[Company awaiting relief]
Art
Depicts the 2nd Division, 22nd Battalion, a group of soldiers, most standing, one sitting on rock near Ville-sur-Ancre. The company of soldiers, wearing helmets and carrying packs, await relief. Will ...ART19603
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Company awaiting relief, the Caterpillar, near Ville-sur-Ancre
Art
Depicts a number of soldiers in uniform, wearing helmets, resting on the road side awaiting relief. The 'caterpillar' in the title refers to the name of a sunken road south of Ville. Dyson inspected V...ART02250.003
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Corps reserve ammunition dump
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the Australian Corps reserve ammunition dump at St Gratien, with a road through the woods camouflaged with hessian stretched above road to conceal ammunition dump. Arthur Streeton is best know...ART03507
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CO's bivouac, DAC at St Souplet (Horace McKeown)
Art
Maker: Bell, George
Depicts Horace Henry McKeowan, a Lieutenant with the First Light Horse, and later a Captain with 4th Division Artillery, sitting in a tent and reading a newspaper or some military papers at St Souplet...ART00130
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Cotton bag : Sapper L Vasco, 11 Field Company Engineers AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Cream cotton bag with rust stains. '16136 VASCOE. L. / 11th F.C. ENGRS / R/S' has been writing on the front in ink.REL/03408.001
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Cylindrical steel vessel with artists brushes and pencils : Sapper L Vasco, 11 Field Company Engineers AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Cylindrical steel vessel with a bayonet attachment lid. The lid has been secured to the main vessel with a piece of twine. The base of the pencil case has the following embossed 'E J W III'. There...REL/03408.005
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DAMAGED BRITISH TANKS ABOARD A TRAIN HEADING FOR REPAIR WORKSHOPS.
Photograph
DAMAGED BRITISH TANKS ABOARD A TRAIN HEADING FOR REPAIR WORKSHOPS.H02133
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Dead beat
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
A solitary soldier sits in the middle of the Somme landscape with his knees drawn up to his chin; his rifle and pack lay on his left side as he stares out into the distance across the solitary and bar...ART94231
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Deceased Soldier's Kit tag : Private C J Brill, 56 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Rectangular white cardboard tag with a vertical red stripe through the centre. At the top is printed 'Australian Imperial Force, Kit Store.'. Beneath this is 'DECEASED SOLDIER'S KIT.'. Underneath is...RELAWM14076.007
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Departing for the war: farewell to wife and child
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
A soldier embraces his wife while his young daughter looks on, before departing for war.ART19602
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Derelict (one of the original tanks blown out near Thiepval)
Art
Depicts an armoured vehicle, a wrecked British Mark 1 tank, in a war damaged landscape, with its rear wheels being stripped for salvaged metal. Dyson noted that this work depicted 'One of the first ta...ART02338
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Diary for Frederick Harold Tubb, 1916-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Tubb, Frederick Harold
Diary relating to the First World War service of Major Frederick Harold Tubb VC, 7th Battalion. The diary was written by Frederick Tubb between 1 July 1916 and 1 January 1917. In the diary, Tubb des...RCDIG0000285
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Diary of Edward Michael McNamee, 1915-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: McNamee, Edward Michael
Diary relating to the First World War service of 1590 Private Edward Michael McNamee. In this diary, kept between 1915 and 1917, McNamee details his service with 9th Battalion at Gallipoli and on the ...RCDIG0000998
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Diary of Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, March - August 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Elliott, Harold Edward 'Pompey'
Diary relating to the First World War Service of Brigadier General Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, 15th Brigade. The diary covers March - August 1918 detailing; being constantly shelled; receiving pra...AWM2018.19.96
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Diary of Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, November 1916 - March 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Elliott, Harold Edward 'Pompey'
Diary relating to the First World Ward service of Brigadier General Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, 15 Brigade. The diary covers November 1916 - March 1918 detailing; his men being killed; being in th...AWM2018.19.95
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Diary of Herbert Vincent Reynolds, 1917-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Reynolds, Herbert Vincent
Diary relating to the First World War service of 622 Private Herbert Vincent Reynolds, 1st Australian Field Ambulance. In this diary, kept between 1 January 1917 and 24 [April] 1918, Reynolds details ...RCDIG0001015
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Diary of John Henry Llewellyn Turnbull, 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Turnbull, John Henry Llewellyn
Diary relating to the First World War service of 1295 Driver John Henry Llewellyn Turnbull, 5th Divisional Ammunition Column. This is the fifth of six detailed diaries transcribed by Turnbull after th...RCDIG0001110
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Diary of Keith McKeddie Doig, 1916-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Doig, Keith McKeddie
Diary relating to the First World War service of Major Keith McKeddie Doig, 60th Infantry Battalion, 28 July [1916] - 7 April 1917. In this diary, Doig briefly notes several days at sea immediately ...AWM2018.19.4
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Diary of Theodor Milton Pflaum, 1916
Digitised Collection
Maker: Pflaum, Theodor Milton
Diary relating to the First World War service of Second Lieutenant Theodor Milton Pflaum, 8th Machine Gun Company. This diary contains entries ranging from 16 June 1916 to February 1917 and covers: th...RCDIG0001104
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1919 Diary related to Henry Arthur Goddard
Digitised Collection
Maker: Goddard, Henry Arthur
Diary relating to the First World War service of Brigadier General Henry Arthur Goddard. The diary was kept by Brigadier General Goddard between January and April 1919 and provides an account of his ...RCDIG0000785
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1918 Diary related to Henry Arthur Goddard
Digitised Collection
Maker: Goddard, Henry Arthur
Diary relating to the First World War service of Brigadier General Henry Arthur Goddard. The diary was kept by Brigadier General Goddard throughout 1918 and documents the battles of Morlancourt, Vill...RCDIG0000784
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Diary transcript of Keith McKeddie Doig, 1916-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Doig, Keith McKeddie
Diary transcript relating to the First World War service of Major Keith McKeddie Doig, 60th Infantry Battalion, 28 July [1916] - 7 April 1917. In this diary transcript, Doig briefly notes several da...AWM2018.19.5
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Diary transcript of Percy Ernest Nimmo, 1916-1919
Digitised Collection
Maker: Nimmo, Percy Ernest
Diary transcript relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Percy Ernest Nimmo, 48th Infantry Battalion, 11 April 1916 - 3 July 1919. In this diary, Nimmo commences to document his active ...AWM2018.19.35
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Diggers sitting in dugout
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts several soldiers, in uniform and wearing tin helmets, sitting in a dugout. One holds a candle to read a letter by. Frank Crozier (1883-1948) worked as a decorator and clerk and attended the Na...ART00235