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Traffic block, early morning near Cosy Corner on the Somme
Art
Depicts a row of mule drawn wagons, riders and soldiers stopped in the snow at 'Cosy Corner' on the Somme, France. 'Cosy Corner' was a traffic police control point leading to access to Trones Wood. Wi...ART02393
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Traffic Control
Art
Depicts a standing figure of a soldier wearing a greatcoat and boots, holding a kerosene lantern. He stands in a roadway. Dyson titled this work 'Traffic Control Somme 1917'. Behind him is another sol...ART02398
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Traffic control post to right of Pozieres
Art
Depicts an Australian soldier directing two Scottish soldiers in a snow covered landscape at the traffic control post near Pozieres, Western Front. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war art...ART02267
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[Train halted on tracks]; verso: Travelling at night
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Sketch of a train that has been halted on tracks with a person standing next to the train. Traveller's are looking from the train. To the left is an incline with telegraph lines. The verso sketch is o...ART93170.011
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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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Transport in the mud
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
A soldier and horse walking through the mud and debris of the Somme.ART02156
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Transport lines
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Soldiers and horses at transport lines in the Somme area.ART13331
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Transports passing through a ruined village
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Transports including soldiers, horses and wagons, passing through a war damaged village in the Somme.ART00230
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Trench art dahlia vase : Sapper S K Pearl, 5 Field Company Engineers, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Pearl, Stanley Keith
Trench art dahlia vase made from a brass German 77mm shell case. The shell has been been hand beaten and narrowed slightly towards the top and then flared out at the rim. The vase has been decorated w...RELAWM14160
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Trench art hat pin stand : Sapper S K Pearl, 5 Field Company Engineers, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Pearl, Stanley Keith
Trench art hat-pin stand, in the form of a field daisy. The base is made from part of a 77mm shell case and an 18 pounder nose cap decorated with a brass 'rising sun' collar badge. Set into the top of...RELAWM14156.001
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Trench art inkstand : Sapper S K Pearl, 5 Field Company Engineers, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Pearl, Stanley Keith
Trench art inkstand set on a rectangular oak wood base. The inkwell, made from part of a wooden aircraft propellor, rests on two brass feet cut from an 18 pounder shell case. Each foot has two small b...RELAWM14150
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Trench art kitchen scoop : Sapper S K Pearl, 5 Field Company Engineers, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Pearl, Stanley Keith
Trench art kitchen scoop for flour, sugar or rice. The body of the scoop is made from a brass German 77mm shellcase cut away to form a decorative scalloped edge, which is further embellished with engr...RELAWM14151
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Trench art letter opener : Driver A C Carter, 18 Battery, 6 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Carter, Arthur Charles
Brass trench art letter opener in the form of a small dagger. It is engraved by hand on one side with the words 'Souvenir Somme Battle 1916'.REL32883
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Trench art letter opener : Driver A C Carter, 18 Battery, 6 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Carter, Arthur Charles
Brass trench art letter opener in the form of a small dagger. The handle is engraved on one side with the words '18TH A.F.A.' and the blade with 'Belgium Ploegsteert Ypres'. On the other side the hand...REL32882
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Trench art model of German Taube aircraft : Sapper S K Pearl, 5 Field Company Engineers,AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Pearl, Stanley Keith
Trench art model of a German Taube type aircraft on a stand. The base is made from an 18 pounder shrapnel fuze with impressed markings '764A V.S.M'. Attached to the top of the fuze is a German small a...RELAWM14149
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Trench Art paper knife : British Army
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Trench Art paper knife with a handle made from a 7.92 mm German rifle bullet and a .45 inch calibre pistol bullet placed end to end. A flattened British Army general service brass button, featuring th...REL31389
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Trench art rose bowl : Sapper S K Pearl, 5 Field Company Engineers, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Pearl, Stanley Keith
Trench art rose bowl made from the cut down base of a German 155mm howitzer shell. There are three 'feet' attached to the base, made from British 60 pounder fuzes. The sides of the shell have been fla...RELAWM14159
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Trench art specimen vase : Sapper S K Pearl, 5 Field Company Engineers, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Pearl, Stanley Keith
Trench art specimen vase, to take a single flower, made from a brass German 'pom-pom' shell case and a brass German flare cartridge. The shell base is unaltered from the original. Attached to it is a ...RELAWM14158
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Trench art table napkin ring : Sapper S K Pearl, 5 Field Company Engineers, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Pearl, Stanley Keith
Trench art table napkin ring set on a stand. The copper ring is made from the driving band from a German 210mm shell. A narrower piece of driving band, from a German 155mm shell is set around the ring...RELAWM14157
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Trench near Crepy Wood during the attack upon Lihons. The 10th Battalion on 10 August 1918 in the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Trench near Crepy Wood during the attack upon Lihons. The 10th Battalion on 10 August 1918 in the Old Somme trench system near Lihons; Crepy Wood in the background, and some of the enemy field guns wh...E02870
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Trench raid near Houplines, April 1917
Art
Maker: Summerhayes, Edwin
A night scene of a trench raid near Houplines: ruined buildings and troops are silhouetted against a red sky with shell bursts and rockets. Major Edwin Summerhayes, originally an architect in Perth, W...ART03534
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Troops lining up for an issue of clean clothes at the 5th Australian Divisional Bathhouse. At ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Troops lining up for an issue of clean clothes at the 5th Australian Divisional Bathhouse. At regular intervals when out of the line, bathing parades were held, and after a hot bath the soldiers were ...E02310
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Troops marching through ruins
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
The work is composed of a large expanse of sky, and at the bottom of the image a war damaged landscape with troops marching through the ruins.ART00231
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Troops relieved
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts several Australian soldiers, holding rifles, moving across a war damaged landscape at night. Beside them is a small fire or flare. Frank Crozier (1883-1948) worked as a decorator and clerk and...ART02181
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Trophy: Musketry Silver Cup, 12th Brigade AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Burnt and battered remains of 12th Brigade AIF's musketry silver cup trophy. Features two handles which have become detatched from the twisted and bent body, and a lid engraved with a simple pattern.RELAWM01513
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Trousers : Flieger-Ersatz-Abtielung 1
Heraldry
Maker: Theaterkunst GmbH
German Air Service (Luftstreitkrafte) brown cotton moleskin trousers with red piping in the outer leg seams. The three concealed buttons on the fly and seven on the waistband are made from black plast...REL/01369.002
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Tunnel dressing station, Villers-Bretonneux
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the entrance to a dressing station situated in a tunnel under a hill near Villers-Bretonneux, the entrance is sandbagged, an ambulance is outside with stretcher bearers carrying wounded on str...ART03509
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Two diggers entering a destroyed village
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Two Australian soldiers entering a war-torn French village on foot. In front of them are burnt trees, damaged buildings and a vehicle.ART00228
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[Two sketches of a review of 2nd Division by General Sir Charles Rosenthal]; verso: [Sketch of a review of 2nd Division by General Sir Charles Rosenthal]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Two sketches on recto of the 2nd Division in review formation for General Sir Charles Rosenthal. The verso also depicts a sketch of the 2nd Division in review formation for Rosenthal with a jeep to th...ART93169.006
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Two unidentified Australian soldiers gathered at a small shelter. This type of shelter was ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Two unidentified Australian soldiers gathered at a small shelter. This type of shelter was generally used by the Australians while on the Somme.E00045
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Two unidentified Australian soldiers outside their shelter, situated in the ruins of a Somme ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Two unidentified Australian soldiers outside their shelter, situated in the ruins of a Somme village, using a steel helmet to scrape off the winter mud from their clothes.E00022
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Two unidentified soldiers on the outskirts of the village. This village was taken by the 6th ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Two unidentified soldiers on the outskirts of the village. This village was taken by the 6th Brigade on 19 May 1918 in one of the series of local offensives made by the Australian Divisions in the Som...E02323
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Unidentified Australian servicemen bathing in shell holes on the Somme battlefield, after the ...
Photograph
Maker: Baldwin, Herbert Frederick
Unidentified Australian servicemen bathing in shell holes on the Somme battlefield, after the fight for Bullecourt.E03925
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Unidentified Australian soldiers using a pulley to raise canteen stores up to a loft in a billet ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Unidentified Australian soldiers using a pulley to raise canteen stores up to a loft in a billet in one of the ruined Somme villages. Note the crate (foreground right) contains tins of 'pork and bean...E00070
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Unidentified soldiers, probably of the 12th Brigade, moving along a support line known as 'Cheese ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Unidentified soldiers, probably of the 12th Brigade, moving along a support line known as 'Cheese Road'. This sunken lane forming the support line in front of Flers. On 12 November 1916, shortly bef...E00576
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Unloading 18-Pounder ammunition at night
Art
Depicts soldiers from the 1st Battery, Australian Field Artillery, 41st battery AFA unloading shells for an 18 pounder gun from a limber, pulled by horses, at night, during the First World War. George...ART00132
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Unofficial European Veterans Medal : Private S J Heath, 19 Infantry Battalion, AIF.
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Unofficial European Veterans Medal. Unnamed as issued.REL30572.007
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Unofficial Somme Medal : Private J W H McCullough, 19 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Medaille Commemorative des Batailles de la Somme (Commemorative Medal of the Battles of the Somme). The obverse shows two warriors with spears and shields fighting side by side. On one shield is a coc...REL/10344.005
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Unofficial Somme Medal : Private S J Heath, 19 Infantry Battalion, AIF.
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Unofficial Somme Medal. Unnamed as issued.REL30572.005
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Vaire-sur-Somme, France. 5 May 1918. Australian soldiers resting at the ferry landing on the bank ...
Photograph
Vaire-sur-Somme, France. 5 May 1918. Australian soldiers resting at the ferry landing on the bank of the River Somme. Note "Circular Quay" painted on the wall, a reference to the famous large ferry te...E04795
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VECQUEMENT DEPOT - ERECTED IN THE SOMME WILDERNESS, AND IMMUNE FROM ANYTHING BUT A DIRECT HIT BY ...
Photograph
VECQUEMENT DEPOT - ERECTED IN THE SOMME WILDERNESS, AND IMMUNE FROM ANYTHING BUT A DIRECT HIT BY AIRCRAFT OR SHELLFIRE.H01028
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VECQUEMENT DEPOT - ERECTED IN THE SOMME WILDERNESS, AND IMMUNE FROM ANYTHING BUT A DIRECT HIT BY ...
Photograph
VECQUEMENT DEPOT - ERECTED IN THE SOMME WILDERNESS, AND IMMUNE FROM ANYTHING BUT A DIRECT HIT BY AIRCRAFT OR SHELLFIRE.H01028A
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verso: [Farm building]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Sketch of a damaged farm building with a rake leaning on the building to the left of the image. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Acc...ART93173.004
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Victory Medal : Lance Corporal J A McDonnell, 6 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Victory Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL31207.003
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Victory Medal : Private E D Hood, 29 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Victory Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/02892.002
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Victory Medal : Private W H Bain, 3 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Victory Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL31729.003
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[View of Amiens]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of Amiens with Amiens Cathedral in background and encampments in the foreground. The Somme River can also be seen winding through the valley towards Amiens. Purchased with the assist...ART93169.018
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[View of Amiens]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of Amiens with wagons and encampments in the foreground and town buildings and trees in background. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cu...ART93169.017
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View of 'Knotty Point', south east of Thilloy, on the Somme, in 1917. Seen here are the trenches ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
View of 'Knotty Point', south east of Thilloy, on the Somme, in 1917. Seen here are the trenches dug by Australians in the fighting at the end of February and the beginning of March.E00496
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View of the Somme, with Vaux and Vaire in the distance, taken from Bray-Corbie Road.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
View of the Somme, with Vaux and Vaire in the distance, taken from Bray-Corbie Road.A00925