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Reardon, Francis (Private, b.1892 - d.1922)
Private Record
Maker: Reardon, Francis
Collection relating to the First World War service of 251 Private Francis (Frank) Reardon, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry Force. Collection consists of a well detailed letter written b...PR04662
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Sars-Poteries [The Quartermaster's store]
Art
Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts two soldiers dividing up rations for the 6th Battalion in the Quartermaster's store, which was situated in a few rooms of a deserted French chateau in Sars-Poteries. Pictured is a German machi...ART02562.006
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Schwarzlose M7/12 Machine Gun Condensor Can
Technology
Schwarzlose M7/12 Machine Gun Condensor Can. The recessed top contains a filler cap and an inlet tap. The front has a square section key bar. Overall painted olive green.RELAWM20110
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Schwarzlose M07/12 Machine Gun Tripod
Technology
Schwarzlose M07/12 Machine Gun Tripod. Folding tubular steel construction with bracing struts between the adjustable front legs and the single rear leg. A bracket on the rear leg is ajustable for elev...RELAWM20109.002
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Section of German MG08 Machine Gun ammunition belt with bullet : reputedly from the aircraft of Baron Manfred von Richthofen
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
A section of German machine gun ammunition belt as used with Maxim MG08 and LMG08 guns and associated development models. The belt is of the 'Ersatz pattern' believed to have been introduced to servic...REL/00927
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Serial and newspaper clippings relating to James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1917-1944
Digitised Collection
Maker: The Daily Telegraph The Sydney Morning Herald
Serial and newspaper clippings relating to the First World War and Second World War service of James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1917-1944. This file primarily contains articles relating to the exploits ...AWM2018.785.70
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Series 4: Unit histories collected by Henry Arthur Goddard
Digitised Collection
Maker: Goddard, Henry Arthur
Battalion histories and other papers relating to the First World War service of Brigadier General Henry Arthur Goddard, 9th Infantry Brigade. The first series consists of a pocket leather notebook co...RCDIG0000659
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Shaw, George Duncan (Lieutenant, b.1894 - d.1984)
Private Record
Maker: Shaw, George Duncan
Collection relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant George Shaw, 28 Battalion, AIF. Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection consists of copies of letters and papers detailing Lieutenant Shaw's exper...PR83/027
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Six Belgian soldiers with a machine gun they installed on a former German Army pillbox near ...
Photograph
Six Belgian soldiers with a machine gun they installed on a former German Army pillbox near Bixschoote. (Donor French Government)H04304
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Sollum, Egypt. May 1916. Australian Army troops of the Imperial Camel Corps Machine Gun Section ...
Photograph
Sollum, Egypt. May 1916. Australian Army troops of the Imperial Camel Corps Machine Gun Section on the Western Frontier at the edge of the Libyan Desert. Lieutenant P. Soldenstead, Officer Commanding ...H12853
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Steel Shield for MG08 machine gun
Technology
Steel shield 3 feet 8 inches wide, x 2 feet 4 inches high, x 3/8 inches thick, through which a round hole 2 1/2 inches in diameter has been placed about two inches above cooling jacket and slightly to...RELAWM10742
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Sticker, Peter William (Lance Corporal, b.1889 - d.1969)
Private Record
Maker: Sticker, Peter William
Collection relating to the First World War service of 6094 Lance Corporal Peter William Sticker, 1 Battalion, 1916-1921. Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of a notebook and discharge certificate relating to S...PR04443
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Studio portrait of 4749 Private Arthur Patrick Bourchier, 5th Battalion, of Warrenheip, Vic. A ...
Photograph
Studio portrait of 4749 Private Arthur Patrick Bourchier, 5th Battalion, of Warrenheip, Vic. A school teacher prior to enlistment, Pte Bourchier embarked with the 15th Reinforcements from Melbourne on...H05843
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Studio portrait of 62 Sergeant (Sgt) Leslie Collins, 3rd Battalion from Ashfield, NSW wearing his ...
Photograph
Studio portrait of 62 Sergeant (Sgt) Leslie Collins, 3rd Battalion from Ashfield, NSW wearing his Militia uniform. A 20 year old packer prior to enlisting in the AIF on 17 August 1914, he embarked for...H05700
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Sub-Series 2: Brigade Histories
Digitised Collection
Maker: Goddard, Henry Arthur
Papers relating to the First World War service of Brigadier General Henry Arthur Goddard, 9th Brigade. This series comprises of a narrative history of the 9th Brigade, 'Chain of Events: History of th...RCDIG0000661
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Taking Chances
Art
Maker: Unknown Social Hygiene Division
Venereal disease prevention poster, presumably the ninth page of a book that has been torn out. Two black and white illustrations accompany the text - the one in the upper left corner is a soldier man...ARTV07536
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Tel el Sheria. Captured enemy photograph showing a Turkish army machine gun battery in action. ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Tel el Sheria. Captured enemy photograph showing a Turkish army machine gun battery in action. See also A00577 and H11631.A00651
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Tel el Sheria. Captured enemy photograph showing a Turkish army machine gun battery in action. ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Tel el Sheria. Captured enemy photograph showing a Turkish army machine gun battery in action. The soldier, second from right and lying prone, is using a binocular range finder.A00577
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4th Division Artillery and Infantry moving into battle
Art
A column of Australian infantrymen and artillery wagons crowd a road leading into a battlefield on the Western Front. The battle is clearly already in action, with a tank moving into position as explo...ART03406
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The Australian War Records Section's trophy store at Millwall Docks, showing a collection of ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
The Australian War Records Section's trophy store at Millwall Docks, showing a collection of captured German trench mortars (minenwerfers) and hundreds of MG08 and MG08/15 machine guns and accessories...D00780
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The body of a dead German at the foot of the ruins of a church was one of a number of the enemy ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
The body of a dead German at the foot of the ruins of a church was one of a number of the enemy forming the machine gun and sniping posts mopped up by the 21st and 23rd Battalions in their clearing ou...E02367
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The entanglements between Lormisset Farm and Mushroom Quarry in the Masnieres-Beaurevoir system, ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
The entanglements between Lormisset Farm and Mushroom Quarry in the Masnieres-Beaurevoir system, behind the main Hindenburg Line. This system was well wired, but with trenches only a few inches deep. ...E03583
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The final objective captured by Lieutenant (Lt) E.H.D. Edgerton DSO MM and party of the 24th ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
The final objective captured by Lieutenant (Lt) E.H.D. Edgerton DSO MM and party of the 24th Battalion, during the attack. Owing to the marshy nature of the country the final objective had to be chose...E02478
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The gap in the tangled barbed wire, through which some of the 53rd Australian Battalion advanced ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
The gap in the tangled barbed wire, through which some of the 53rd Australian Battalion advanced the previous day in the face of heavy machine gun fire. The packs of five wounded men may be seen near ...E03149
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The grave of Count Richthofen (the famous German airman, who was brought down by the australian ...
Photograph
The grave of Count Richthofen (the famous German airman, who was brought down by the australian machine gun fire) at Bertangles.C04890
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THE MACHINE GUN ON THE ROOF OF THE RAILWAY STATION AT MIT GHAMR, EGYPT, ERECTED BY THE 15TH LIGHT ...
Photograph
THE MACHINE GUN ON THE ROOF OF THE RAILWAY STATION AT MIT GHAMR, EGYPT, ERECTED BY THE 15TH LIGHT HORSE REGIMENT DURING ITS OCCUPATION OF THE TOWN AFTER THE EGYPTIAN RIOTS. (DONATED BY COLONEL A.J. MI...J06032
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The machine gun section of the 1st Battalion, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force ...
Photograph
The machine gun section of the 1st Battalion, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) training at Palm Islan during a stop on their way to New Ireland.H12841
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The old hangars in `no man's land'. On the right can be seen the ruins of a second aerodrome, in ...
Photograph
The old hangars in `no man's land'. On the right can be seen the ruins of a second aerodrome, in which the enemy earlier in the month had established a machine gun strong post. On the night of 13 Apr...E04911
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The Riqueval entrance to the St Quentin Canal Tunnel, captured on 29 September 1918. This tunnel, ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer Unknown Australian Official Photographer
The Riqueval entrance to the St Quentin Canal Tunnel, captured on 29 September 1918. This tunnel, which formed a strongly fortified section of the Hindenburg Defence System, was a "huge unhealthy barr...E03515
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The trumpet calls
Art
Maker: Lindsay, Norman W. A. Gullick, Government Printers
A soldier sounds his bugle for assistance on the front line while civilians listen in the background. Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) was a painter, draughtsman, illustrator, cartoonist, printmaker, writer...ARTV00039
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The unknown soldier: all quiet on the western front
Art
Maker: de Kessler, Thomas
A faceless man (numbers instead of facial features) standing before a background of stars (or explosions).ART91462
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The village of Tincourt burning while it was still defended by the enemy machine gunners, placed ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
The village of Tincourt burning while it was still defended by the enemy machine gunners, placed in the white chalk trenches in the foreground.E03243
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The War of Munitions, How Great Britain has mobilised her industries.
Art
Maker: G.K Unknown Unknown
British First World War poster issued to illustrate the success of industrial mobilisation. The title is separate and positioned across the top, in black and red. Fourteen separate images make up the ...ARTV00305
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This village, east of Hazebrouck, is here seen (beyond the trees) from the front line of the 11th ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
This village, east of Hazebrouck, is here seen (beyond the trees) from the front line of the 11th Battalion on 17 June. A daylight raid had just been made against a German machine gun post situated at...E02490
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10th Machine Gun Company Headquarters
Art
Depicts a view into the entrance of the 10th Machine Gun Company Headquarters on the Western Front, with duckboards, barbed wire and debris in front of it, in a war damaged landscape. Dyson wrote that...ART09926
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Three soldiers of No 4 Section of the 22nd Machine Gun Company shooting at a German aircraft ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Three soldiers of No 4 Section of the 22nd Machine Gun Company shooting at a German aircraft flying low over the Bullecourt battlefield. Identified from left to right: 396B Lance Corporal Roy James Do...E00458
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[Transcript] Diaries of Thomas James Richards, Vol. 4
Digitised Collection
Maker: Australian War Memorial Richards, Thomas James 'Rusty'
Transcript of diaries relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Thomas James Richards, 1st Australian Infantry Battalion. This transcript was made of the last bound volume of Richards’ dia...RCDIG0001498
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Transcript of diaries of Arthur Thomas, 1916-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Thomas, Arthur G
Transcript of diaries relating to the First World War service of 3470 Corporal Arthur Thomas, 6th Battalion. Transcript of the diary written by Arthur Thomas between 20 July 1916 and 5 June 1918 and w...RCDIG0001097
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Transcript of letters from Arthur Thomas to his family, 1915-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Thomas, Arthur G
Letters relating to the First World War service of 3470 Corporal Arthur Thomas, 6th Battalion. These letters, written between 15 October 1915 and 7 June 1918, were transcribed into one document by th...RCDIG0001095
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Transcripts of diary of Cecil Anthony McAnulty, [1915]
Digitised Collection
Maker: McAnulty, Cecil Anthony
Transcripts of diary relating to the First World War service of 1803 Private Cecil Anthony McAnulty 3rd Infantry Battalion. In the original diary, kept between 1 June [1915] and 8 August [1915], McAnu...RCDIG0000928
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Twenty one unidentified soldiers at rest (four of them are playing cards) at an anti aircraft ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Twenty one unidentified soldiers at rest (four of them are playing cards) at an anti aircraft machine gun post of 22nd Battalion.E02381
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Two men of the 7th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery operate a light trench mortar ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Two men of the 7th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery operate a light trench mortar established in a machine gun post on the new front line. From left to right: 1916 Lance Corporal A. J. Ellis and...E02677
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Two soldiers in trench with Lewis gun
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts two Australian soldiers, one who is smoking a pipe, standing in a trench near a gun mount with a Lewis gun, during the First World War. Charles Bryant had some early art lessons before beginni...ART00161
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Ultimo Crater
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts the Ultimo Crater and war damaged landscape at Messines, Belgium on the Western Front during the First World War. It is mentioned in Charles Bean, `Official History of Australia in the war of ...ART00180
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Unidentified crew members with their tripod mounted Vickers .303 machine gun Mark I. These guns ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Unidentified crew members with their tripod mounted Vickers .303 machine gun Mark I. These guns were first supplied by Britain to Australian troops and were used during the First World War. From 1929,...P08338.001
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Vickers Mk 1 Medium Machine Gun damaged at Vaire Wood: 4 Machine Gun Company, AIF
Technology
Maker: Vickers Ltd
Battle Damaged Vickers Mk 1 Machine Gun. Bent barrel and the front section of the fluted jacket has been blown off. The spade grips and the rear sight are damaged. The feed mechanism is missing. Damag...RELAWM07332
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Vickers Mk 1 Medium Machine Gun : 4th Machine Gun Company, AIF
Technology
Vickers Mk 1 Medium Machine Gun. Rectangular box section construction receiver with a fusee spring cover on the left and cocking lever on the right. Twin wooden spade grips with oil bottles and brushe...RELAWM03860
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View from the position of the German machine guns on the ramparts of Peronne. From this pointion ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
View from the position of the German machine guns on the ramparts of Peronne. From this pointion a view could be obtained of Mont St Quentin, the slope of which is seen in the right background of the ...E03783
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Vol. 4: Diaries of Thomas James Richards, 9 November 1916 - 31 May 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Australian War Memorial Richards, Thomas James 'Rusty'
This series contains the seventeenth through twenty-third First World War diaries of Lieutenant Thomas James Richards, 1st Australian Infantry Battalion. Sometime after returning home from the war, Ri...RCDIG0001489
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Wallet 2 of 2 - Correspondence from Norman Cartmell Heathcote to his family and letters from immediate and extended family, October 1916 - March 1919
Digitised Collection
Maker: Heathcote, Norman Cartmell
Collection relating to the First World War service of 3792 Lieutenant Norman Cartmell Heathcote, 5 Machine Gun Battalion, Australia, At sea, Egypt, France, England and Scotland, 22 June 1915 - 30 Marc...AWM2020.7.121