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[village]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007ART93174.012
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[Village landscape]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the right hand side page of a sketch of a landscape with a village. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007ART93169.013
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Villers-Bretonneux, crucifix corner
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch of Crucifix corner at Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, France, with the landscape devastated due to war damage. The son of artist Frederick McCubbin, Louis McCubbin was born in Melbourne ...ART13318
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Violin made from war relics in France: Private Max Nicholls, 30 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Nicholls, Maximillian
Violin made from war relics collected in France during the First World War by 2407 Private Max Nicholls, 30 Battalion AIF. The body of the violin is made from a German field telephone box of glued a...RELAWM14432
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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 1 of 1 - Diary of Percy Thomas Carroll, May 1915 - February 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Carroll, Percy Thomas
Diary relating to the First World War service of 1101 Private Percy Thomas Carroll, 23rd Infantry Battalion, May 1915 - February 1917. In this diary Carroll documents his active service with the 23rd...AWM2019.22.91
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Wallet 1 of 1 - Manuscript relating to the history of the 43rd Infantry Battalion by Eustace James Colliver and Brian Harold Richardson, 1919
Digitised Collection
Maker: Colliver, Eustace James Richardson, Brian Harold
Manuscript relating to the history of the 43rd Infantry Battalion by Captain Eustace James Colliver and 949 Lieutenant Brian Harold Richardson, 43rd Infantry Battalion, 1919. Wallet 1 of 1 - Contains...AWM2018.19.47
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Wallet 3 of 3 - Memoir of Walter Scott Kennedy, 1914 - 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Kennedy, Walter Scott
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1204 Private Walter Scott Kennedy, 15 Battalion and 4 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1914-1918. Wallet 3 of 3 - Collection consists of the orig...AWM2020.22.197
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Wallet 2 of 3 - Transcript of memoir of Walter Scott Kennedy, 1914 - 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Kennedy, Walter Scott Kennedy, Walter Scott
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1204 Private Walter Scott Kennedy, 15 Battalion and 4 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1914-1918. Wallet 2 of 3 - Collection consists of a typed ...AWM2020.22.196
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Wallet : Private C J Brill, 56 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Rectangular brown leather three-fold wallet, secured shut by two press studs (one press stud is damaged). The interior of the wallet is lined with leather. Each side of the interior is fitted with two...RELAWM14076.001
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Walsh, Ulric Kerwick MC (Lieutenant)
Private Record
Maker: Walsh, Ulric Kerwick
Collection of letters, postcards and photographs of Lieutenant (Lt) Ulric K Walsh who served with the 17th Battalion in France. Lt Walsh was awarded the Military Cross in May 1918 for his actions nea...PR01801
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War letters of General Monash: Volume 1, 24 December 1914 - 4 March 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Monash, John
File relating to the First World War service of Major General John Monash, 3rd Australian Division. This file consists of one bound volume of letters transcribed in 1934 with the contents ranging in d...RCDIG0000569
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WATERLOT FARM, FRANCE. 1917. THIS WAS THE AREA WHERE BRITISH TANKS WERE FIRST USED DURING THE ...
Photograph
WATERLOT FARM, FRANCE. 1917. THIS WAS THE AREA WHERE BRITISH TANKS WERE FIRST USED DURING THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. (DONOR M. CORKHILL) (ORIGINAL PRINTS HELD IN AWM ARCHIVE STORE)P00826.003
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Watson, Ernest John (Private, b.1888 - d.1974)
Private Record
Maker: Watson, Ernest John
Collection of 695 Private Ernest J Watson of 26 Battalion. It comprises a photograph of Watson in uniform and a diary he wrote between 3 January 1917 and 2 December 1919. In the diary Watson writes fr...PR03078
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Watts, Eric (Bombardier, 2nd FAB AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Watts, Eric
44 PAGE LETTER DESCRIBING IN DETAIL STAGING IN EGYPT AND ARRIVAL IN FRANCE, ACTION AT SOMME, INCLUDING GAS ATTACKS, AND LATER OPERATIONS AT ALBERTPR86/057
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Webley Mark VI Revolver : Captain A L Rickard, 45 Battery, Australian Field Artillery
Technology
Maker: Webley
Webley Mark VI double action six shot revolver. The frame is stamped with British proof marks and WEBLEY MARK VI PATENTS 1916. The grips are brown checkered plastic held to the frame with a central sc...REL31765.001
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Webster, C W W (Gunner, 10 Battery, Field Artillery, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Webster, Clarence William Willoughby
DIARY AND MEMOIRS RELATED TO SERVICE IN FRANCE, ANTI-TANK TRAINING, MOVEMENT TO THE SOMME, COMMENTS ON THE DEATH OF RICHTHOFEN, MENTIONS THE SPREAD OF BOLSHEVISM, LEAVE IN SCOTLAND, AND RETURN TO AUST...PR83/248
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Wecome back to the Somme
Art
Depicts a group of marching troops in the Somme district. Beside them, on the side of the road, are a group of women and children welcoming Australian troops as they returned to the Somme area to coun...ART02252.004
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Welcome back to the Somme
Art
Maker: Vincent, Day, Brooks and Sons
Depicts a group of marching troops in the Somme district. Beside them, on the side of the road, are a group of women and children welcoming Australian troops as they returned to the Somme area to coun...ART02252.001
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Welcome back to the Somme
Art
Depicts a group of marching troops in the Somme district. Beside them, on the side of the road, are a group of women and children welcoming Australian troops as they returned to the Somme area to coun...ART02252.012
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Welcome back to the Somme
Art
Depicts a group of marching troops in the Somme district. Beside them, on the side of the road, are a group of women and children welcoming Australian troops as they returned to the Somme area to coun...ART02252.013
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Welcome back to the Somme
Art
Depicts a group of marching troops in the Somme district. Beside them, on the side of the road, are a group of women and children welcoming Australian troops as they returned to the Somme area to coun...ART02252.003
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Welcome back to the Somme
Art
Depicts a group of marching troops in the Somme district. Beside them, on the side of the road, are a group of women and children welcoming Australian troops as they returned to the Somme area to coun...ART02252.002
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Welcome Wood near Vaux-Somme
Art
Depicts a barren landscape at Welcome Wood, near Vaux-Somme, in France during the First World War. Vaux is near Suzanne in the Corbie Albert Area on the Somme.ART03594
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Wilkins, Gordon (Lieutenant, 18th Bn, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Wilkins, Gordon
DETAILS OF TRAINING NEAR CAIRO AND DEFENCE OF THE SUEZ CANAL, ACTION IN THE SOMME AREA, WOUNDING AT BULLECOURT AND EVENTUAL LOSS OF HIS LEG DURING HOSPITALIZATION IN ENGLANDPR82/129
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William Herbert Smith talks about about his experiences in 1st Division Signals Company during the First World War
Sound
Maker: Smith, William Herbert Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Discusses: reaction to war and reasons for enlisting; enlistment in the AIF May 1915; trained as a signaller; Gallipoli; attached to 1st Division Signal Company, No.3 Section, 3rd Infantry Brigade; su...S02068
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William Smith (103650) interviewed about his experiences in the Royal Engineers and the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) during the First World War
Sound
Maker: William Smith Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Discusses: early life; pre-war employment; enlistment in the Royal Engineers; mother's reaction to enlistment; duties as a dispatch rider; covering party duties in No-man's land; awarded the Military ...S02067
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Wilson, David T P (Lance Corporal, 24th Bn, AIF b.1889 - d.1954)
Private Record
Maker: Wilson, David Temple Palmerston
DIARY IN 3 VOLUMES REWRITTEN FROM ORIGINAL C 1926/30 COVERING 1916-1919 DESCRIBING ENLISTMENT, STAGING IN EGYPT, TRAINING IN ENGLAND AND ACTION AT POZIERES AND ON THE SOMME, YPRES AND MT ST QUENTIN, W...PR86/341
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Wintery day on the Somme
Art
Depicts a soldier in uniform, wearing a great coat, standing at the entrance of a dugout, with a kerosene lamp hanging near the door, looking out onto a snowy winter landscape on the Somme in December...ART02411
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Wireless station, St Gratien
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts the wireless station at St Gratien. Ensconsed in a temporary communication station in the chateau at St Gratien, Australian Head Quarters, two Australian soldiers seated on crates wearing head...ART02876
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With the guns at Lavieville
Art
Depicts two soldiers at rest with their ammunition, guns and a donkey at Lavieville, near Amiens, in north-western France. The gun is an 18-pounder and piles of shells rest in right fore- ground of th...ART02226.009
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Woman drawing water
Art
Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Depicts bomb-damaged buildings in a small French town. A woman is seen drawing water at centre left. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefiel...ART19591
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Wooden cross erected at Mouquet Farm: 49th Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Large wooden cross manufactured of timber which was originally whitewashed or white painted, but which is now grey in colour. The words 'ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF OFFICERS N.C.O.S & MEN 49TH BN A.I.F. ...RELAWM09421
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Wooden Wind Indicator
Heraldry
Weather vane made from three pieces of wood in the shape of a toy biplane. Two shorter pieces, representing the wings, are nailed above and below a longer piece, representing the fuselage. The 'wings'...RELAWM00527
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Working party at Flers
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a soldier walking through a badly war damaged landscape, surrounded by debris. In front of him is shell hole filled with water. Frank Crozier (1883-1948) worked as a decorator and clerk and ...ART00212
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Working party in trenches
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
This depiction of the Western Front shows Australian soldiers on the move across the landscape littered with the remnants of battle. In the right foreground, a medical officer searches the battle grou...ART00238
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Wounded soldiers lie on stretchers on the ground at the Dressing Station while two other soldiers ...
Photograph
Maker: Rose, George
Wounded soldiers lie on stretchers on the ground at the Dressing Station while two other soldiers prepare another stretcher. (Original stereocard housed in AWM Archive Store)P00437.092
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Writing to catch the home mail
Art
Depicts two soldiers from the 4th Australian Division sitting near billets writing letters in the Somme during winter 1917. One is wearing a greatcoat and scarf. Will Dyson was the first Australian of...ART02397
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YASS, NSW, C. 1915. 4524 PRIVATE MALCOLM MCINTOSH SOUTHWELL, 20TH BATTALION AIF, WHO WAS KILLED ...
Photograph
YASS, NSW, C. 1915. 4524 PRIVATE MALCOLM MCINTOSH SOUTHWELL, 20TH BATTALION AIF, WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON THE SOMME, FRANCE, ON 1916-11-15.P00124.001
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YMCA hut on the Somme, July 1917
Art
Maker: Lindsay, Daryl Ernest
Depicts a scene inside a YMCA hut with soldiers sitting at tables and also standing at at counter.ART02963
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YMCA SECRETARY ASSISTING AT AN ADVANCED DRESSING STATION ON THE SOMME, FRANCE, DURING 1918.
Photograph
YMCA SECRETARY ASSISTING AT AN ADVANCED DRESSING STATION ON THE SOMME, FRANCE, DURING 1918.H01146
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Ypres, in Belgium, photographed from an observation balloon. The view is taken looking towards ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Ypres, in Belgium, photographed from an observation balloon. The view is taken looking towards Poperinghe Gate (at the top left) with the Cavalry Barracks, the billets of the 1st Australian divisional...E01253