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Notes relating to James Murdoch Archer Durrant, [date unknown]
Digitised Collection
Maker: Durrant, James Murdoch Archer
Notes relating to the First World War and Second World War service of Major-General James Murdoch Archer Durrant, [date unknown]. This file contains notes written by James Murdoch Archer Durrant that...AWM2018.785.71
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[no title]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
An illegible partial sketch that has been crossed out. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007ART93175.022
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Not titled
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A brief sketch of what could possibly be ruined buildings. Probably a partial sketch of the building depicted in ART12639. The verso is blank. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Govern...ART93175.008
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Nott, Lewis Windermere (Captain, b.1886 - d.1951)
Private Record
Maker: Nott, Lewis Windermere
Collection relating to the First World War service of Lewis Windermere Nott. Lewis Windermere Nott was a third generation Australian and the fifth son of one of Queensland's sugar pioneers, Frederick...PR00685
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Observation balloon shot down
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolor sketch depicting a church in the Somme region with an observation balloon having been shot down in the skyline. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in Fra...ART03052
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Oeuvre de la Somme dévastée [Work on the devastated Somme]
Art
Maker: Unknown [PARIS : S.N., N.D.] (PARIS : IMPRIMERIE DES ORPHELINS - APPRENTIS D'AUTEXIL)
A widow and her children and an old man enter the interior of a rustic wooden building, their faces are grim. There is a farmer sowing crops to the far right and in the upper centre is an avenue of tr...ARTV04867
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Official correspondence received by Henry Arthur Goddard
Digitised Collection
Maker: Various
Official correspondence relating to the First World War service of Brigadier General Henry Arthur Goddard. The letters written to Brigadier General Goddard concern the conduct of troops under his com...RCDIG0000786
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Old S13, struck off strength after 10 months' service
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts an RE8 aircraft on the No. 3 Squadron airfield at Poulainville, Villers Bocage, stripped of engine cowling and wings (RE = Research Experimental). The Australian Flying Corps (AFC) was establi...ART03508
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One of the Old Platoon
Art
An Australian soldier in full uniform, with a large pack on his back, standing in a war damaged landscape. He is bending over to pay tribute at the grave of a dead Australian soldier in Pozieres. The...ART02245.003
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On road toward Corbie
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts part of an encampment on a road towards Corbie. ART12646 matches up with this work as the left hand side of the complete sketch and was excised by Streeton from the sketchbook. This sketchbook...ART93170.006
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Operations and Training; Ammunition Supply complied by Henry Arthur Goddard
Digitised Collection
Maker: Goddard, Henry Arthur
Folder for Operations, Training and Ammunition Supply relating to the First World War service of Brigadier General Henry Arthur Goddard, 9th Brigade. The folders contains a report on the training of ...RCDIG0000811
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Ordnance workshops, Cambrai Road
Art
Depicts a number of Australian soldiers preparing and working with field guns and ordnance at a workshop near Bapaume. The image shows a view of part of the ordnance workshop, with ruined buildings in...ART02258.006
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Overhead cover in a deserted trench, the Somme
Art
Depicts the overhead cover, with piles of sandbags on top, of a trench on the Somme in 1917. In the foreground are used shells and debris. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to vi...ART09916
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Packing Red Cross comforts, Government House, Melbourne
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Boxes of fruit and vegetables are being packed by nurses, soldiers and workers as Red Cross comforts to be sent to the Western Front during the First World War in Government House, Melbourne.ART13347
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Paints contained in tobacco tin : Sapper L Vasco, 11 Field Company Engineers AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Rectangular shaped tobacco tin with aqua background and the text 'PLAYERS MEDIUM NAVY CUT' on the hinged lid. The contents of the tobacco tin is nine lead paint tubes and two rectangular paint holder...REL/03408.006
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Panorama of the Somme
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the Somme Valley possibly near St Gratien, with the ruins of a brick wall of an old chateau, and the towns of Sucrerie[?], Ribemont, Mericourt, Morlancourt, and Sailly-le-Sec in the ...ART03493
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Papers relating to Joseph John Talbot Hobbs, June-July 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Hobbs, Joseph John Talbot Monash, John Peck, John Henry Ralph, Edgar Maurice Tivey, Edwin
Papers relating to the First World War service of Major-General Joseph John Talbot Hobbs, 5th Australian Division, 7 June - 31 July 1918. This collection primarily contains official records written a...AWM2018.19.99
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Papers relating to Joseph John Talbot Hobbs, March-May 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Hobbs, Joseph John Talbot Peck, John Henry
Papers relating to the First World War service of Major-General Joseph John Talbot Hobbs, 5th Australian Division, 4 March - 10 May 1918. This collection primarily contains official records written a...AWM2018.19.98
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Patrolling in no-man's-land on the Somme
Art
Depicts two unidentified soldiers walking through the mist in the war damaged landscape of No-Man's-Land, the Somme in France. The soldier in the rear has his rifle over his shoulder. Will Dyson was t...ART02313
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Patterson, Robert (Corporal d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Patterson, Robert
Three letters relating to war service of Corporal Robert Patterson who died on 31 August 1918 at the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin and was buried in a grave at a Peronne cemetery. All three letters wer...PR00955
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[Penleigh Boyd]; verso: [Penleigh Boyd]
Art
Maker: Boyd, Penleigh
Recto:Depicts a man standing wearing a heavy coat and cap smoking a pipe. Path leading to a gate with a farm house in the background with two chimney stacks. Verso: phtograph of Penleigh Boyd stands i...ART19835
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Percy Atkinson Bird (5666) as a sergeant 5th Infantry Battalion AIF, Egypt and France 1915-1917, interviewed by Dr Alistair Thomson
Sound
Maker: Bird, Percy Atkinson Thomson, Alistair
Pre-war life in and around Williamstown, Victoria being a member of the Boys Naval Brigade; enlistment in April 1916, and how his father passed away after he sailed for Egypt; Etaples Camp, France; jo...S01305
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Peronne
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a wrecked building in the town of Peronne. On the verso is the sketch 'Road up to Mont St Quentin' which depicts the war damaged town of Mont St Quentin and wrecked trees and forest in the dis...ART12636
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Peronne
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a street in the town of Peronne at the Western Front with war damaged buildings and debris scattered throughout the street. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelbe...ART12634
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Peronne
Art
A number of houses that have been damaged as the result of the bombardment of Peronne.ART03382
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Peronne
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the view of the town of peronne and its ruined buildings. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 with the 10th F...ART03142
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Peronne. Heavy artillery advancing through the town
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
The 1st Australian Imperial Force going through the ruins of Peronne with heavy artillery such as 8 inch howitzers. A biplane can be seen flying overhead. Smoke from burning villages is visible in t...ART03043
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Peronne, looking towards Mont St Quentin
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
View across the Somme River, with Mont St Quentin in background; Mont St Quentin, Hindenburg Line, Western Front. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melb...ART03520
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Personal diary of Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood, 1 January 1916 - 1 January 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Birdwood, William Riddell
This personal diary of Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood commences with a narrative of the events of December 1915, the troops being en route to Egypt after their withdrawal from Gallipoli. Entries ...RCDIG0000004
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Photograph of 'Gladys' : Private C J Brill, 56 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Half of a photograph, showing a young woman in a coat with a fur collar. The name 'Gladys' is signed diagonally on the photograph. Beneath the image of the woman is some purple handwriting which is no...RELAWM14076.006
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Photographs relating to service of Albert Henshall
Digitised Collection
Maker: Unknown
Various photographs relating to First World War service of Sergeant Albert Henshall, 3rd Light Horse Brigade. File contains: Photograph: SS Menominee; Photograph: View from back of dugouts, Gallipoli...RCDIG0000167
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Photograph taken near Chiugnolles, an hour after the steep heights shown had been stormed and ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Photograph taken near Chiugnolles, an hour after the steep heights shown had been stormed and captured by the 3rd Australian Infantry Brigade. Froissy Beacon can be discovered on the edge of the chalk...E03009
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Picquigny, France, 1918. Members of the Chinese Labour Corps loading tree trunks onto the back of ...
Photograph
Picquigny, France, 1918. Members of the Chinese Labour Corps loading tree trunks onto the back of a truck on a road northwest of Amiens. The trees were felled by retreating German troops to impede the...P01835.039
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Pile driving for building a bridge over the Somme, erected across the Somme Canal, at Brie, by ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Pile driving for building a bridge over the Somme, erected across the Somme Canal, at Brie, by Australian Engineers.E03624
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Pilot's brevet : Second Lieutenant J J Pengilley, Australian Flying Corps
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australian Flying Corps embroidered pilot's qualification brevet with a brass and copper backing and pin. The brevet has cream cotton embroidered wings, a King's crown, and the letters 'AFC' within a ...REL32619
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Pilot's brevet : Second Lieutenant J J Pengilley, Australian Flying Corps
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australian Flying Corps embroidered pilot's qualification brevet. The brevet has cream cotton embroidered wings, a King's crown, and the letters 'AFC' within a khaki embroidered laurel wreath, on a da...REL32621
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Pilot's brevet : Second Lieutenant J J Pengilley, Australian Flying Corps
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australian Flying Corps embroidered pilot's qualification brevet. The brevet has cream cotton embroidered wings, a King's crown, and the letters 'AFC' within a khaki embroidered laurel wreath, on a na...REL32620
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Pilot's flying helmet : German Air Service
Heraldry
Flying helmet of rigid vegetable tanned leather leather neckflap and earflaps with buckle.Stitch attached are a central square profile brim edge and central comb running front to back. The ridges are...REL/01043
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Pocket book : Private C J Brill, 56 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Cassell & Company Limited
Pocket book with green fabric cover. On the front is printed 'Letts's Diary, 1916' in gold. The book has sustained shell damage and has a number of holes. Many pages are in fragments or are loose from...RELAWM14076.002
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Pommiers Redoubt
Art
Depicts two unidentified soldiers of the 5th Division, 14th Brigade getting a hot meal. One is wearing a scarf around his head, the other a cape, and both are wearing gum boots. Will Dyson was the fir...ART02212
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Portrait of Lieutenant John (Jack) Longstaff by his father John Longstaff
Art
Maker: Longstaff, John
Lieutenant John Campbell 'Jack' Longstaff, British Army, 1/5 Battalion York and Lancashire Regiment. Jack was killed in action on the 7th of July 1916 during the Somme campaign. This portrait was pain...ART19522
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60-pounder gun off Albert Road
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
The drawing shows the trail end of a 60-pounder Breech Loading (BL) gun, off Albert Road near Albert, France. The Mark I gun is placed under camouflage netting showing its interrupted thread single mo...ART03531
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18 pounder quick firing gun
Art
Depicts an 18 pounder quick firing gun, Mark II, with camouflage paint, with a half limber wagon for ammunition, which is also camouflaged, behind the gun. The gun was used by the 1st Australian Imper...ART03378
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Preparing the Brazier
Art
Depicts two soldiers, each wearing heavy long coats and hats, in front of a tent. One is standing and gazing into a small fire burning in a brazier, while the other is seated, warming his hands in fro...ART02297.002
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Preparing the brazier
Art
Depicts two soldiers, each wearing heavy long coats and hats, in front of a tent. One is standing and gazing into a small fire burning in a brazier, while the other is seated, warming his hands in fro...ART02297.004
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Preparing the Brazier
Art
Depicts two soldiers, each wearing heavy long coats and hats, in front of a tent. One is standing and gazing into a small fire burning in a brazier, while the other is seated, warming his hands in fro...ART02297.003
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Prisoner-of-war compound, Abbeville
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Abbeville; barbed wire, encampment; fences of barbed wire reinforced with wire entalglements surrounding Nissen huts accommodating German prisoners Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters...ART03528
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[Prisoners marching]
Art
Scrapbook leaf with a watercolour on artist's paper, depicting German prisoners marching from the Somme through the Reninghelst. Benson notes that Lieutenant W. Coleman of the 4th Light Horse is in ch...ART03605.027
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Prisonniers allemands, Yser 1916 (German prisoners, Yser 1916), from the series 'Impressions de guerre'
Art
Maker: Brouet, Auguste
This print is from the series of etchings 'Impressions de guerre'. Two French soldiers escort five weary German prisoners. They move across the image from left to right. Geffroy suggests that this wor...ART92895