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A fatigue party of three unidentified soldiers carrying duckboards along a duckboard pathway ...
Photograph
Maker: Gornall, William Arthur
A fatigue party of three unidentified soldiers carrying duckboards along a duckboard pathway Molenhoek - Becelaere - Ypres.A00007
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Aisne area, France. An unidentified Lieutenant standing at the entrance to an Allied trench that ...
Photograph
Maker: Underwood and Underwood
Aisne area, France. An unidentified Lieutenant standing at the entrance to an Allied trench that has been camouflaged with a `roof' of chicken wire which has sprigs of pine and hemlock attached to it....P02693.021
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Aisne area, France. An unidentified Lieutenant standing at the entrance to an Allied trench that ...
Photograph
Maker: Underwood and Underwood
Aisne area, France. An unidentified Lieutenant standing at the entrance to an Allied trench that has been camouflaged with a `roof' of chicken wire which has sprigs of pine and hemlock attached to it....P02693.007
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A Lewis gun team on a duckboard track near Lake Farm, in the Ypres Sector. The soldiers are ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A Lewis gun team on a duckboard track near Lake Farm, in the Ypres Sector. The soldiers are unidentified.E01087
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A light railway train loaded with duckboards to be used in the advanced route proceeding along ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A light railway train loaded with duckboards to be used in the advanced route proceeding along the Menin Road track, in the Ypres Sector.E00816
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A line of Australian soldiers making their way along a duckboard track behind Delville Wood.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A line of Australian soldiers making their way along a duckboard track behind Delville Wood.E00138
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An artillery horse used for transporting ammunition to the guns and its unidentified Australian ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An artillery horse used for transporting ammunition to the guns and its unidentified Australian driver on a duckboard track between Mametz and Montauban.E00002
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"At Ypres". This inscription was recorded on the back of the original photograph by the ...
Photograph
Maker: Nenke, Robert Willie
"At Ypres". This inscription was recorded on the back of the original photograph by the photographer. The names of the two soldiers on the duckboard walkway, probably from the 46th Battalion, is unkno...P07670.020
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Australian troops making their way along duckboard tracks near the Nissen Hut encampment behind ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Australian troops making their way along duckboard tracks near the Nissen Hut encampment behind Delville Wood.E00139
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A view from the duckboards, near the 'Cough Drop', in front of High Wood, looking east, showing ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A view from the duckboards, near the 'Cough Drop', in front of High Wood, looking east, showing German shells bursting behind the former Australian positions, near Flers.E00209
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Buildings used by the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, near Steenwerck. Note the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Buildings used by the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, near Steenwerck. Note the duckboard walkways used to avoid the mud.P00156.075
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Casualty
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts an Australian soldier holding the dead body of a fellow soldier in a barren, war damaged landscape, in the foreground. Behind him are other soldiers and a cloud filled sky. Frank Crozier (1883...ART02170
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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. A PART OF THE AUSTRALIAN FRONT LINE AT GUEUDECOURT, SHOWING SANDBAG REINFORCEMENT, DUCKBOARDS AND TIMBER BRIDGE OVER WATER-FILLED SHELL HOLE.P00308.006
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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. AUSTRALIAN TRENCHES, SHOWING SANDBAGS, DUCKBOARDS AND DIRECTION SIGNS TO THE FRONT LINE AND SUBSIDIARY LINE.P00308.003
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Collection relating to the service of 1512, 1578, VX55289, V7592, V24239 Charles James (Nobby) Clarke MM DCM, 14th Battalion.
Photograph
BAPAUME, FRANCE, 1916. HAVOC CAUSED BY GERMAN GUNS NEAR BAPAUME. SHOWS REMAINS OF WRECKED HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLES, SHELL CASES AND DAMAGED DUCKBOARDS AMONG TIMBER AND RUBBLE.P00308.008
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Coming out at Hill 60
Art
Depicts members of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 4th Division, in full kit walking along duckboard tracks over trenches, in a war damaged landscape. This image was reproduced in 'Australia at War...ART02273
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Craterland
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a wounded man on a stretcher being carried by four German prisoners of war while under armed escort of an Australian soldier. They are walking along a duckboard track past shell holes filled w...ART02925
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Davies, David Thomas (Lance Corporal, b.1887 - d.1941)
Private Record
Maker: Davies, David Thomas
Collection relating to the First World War service of 4335 Lance Corporal David Thomas Davies, France and England, 1916-1919. Collection consists of 18 letters and one postcard written by Davies to th...AWM2016.147.1
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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 Mervyn Ernest Hazen, 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Hazen, Mervyn Ernest
Diary relating to the First World War Service of 5341 Private Mervyn Ernest Hazen, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion. This file consists of one bound photocopy of a pocket diary kept by Pte Hazen f...AWM2018.19.2
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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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Diggers going into the line
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Australian AIF soldiers in winter coats trapse in single file through the war damaged landscape of the Somme. Carrying their full personal equipment packs, duck boards and supplies, they survey a dism...ART00227
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Duckboard from Fromelles trenches
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wooden duckboard constructed with iron nails. The boards are nailed across three long sections of wood which may once have been painted in green and brown. There is additional bracing beneath the cros...RELAWM00491
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Fatigue parties in the moonlight near Flers
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a group of soldiers some carrying kit bags, one carrying some duckboard through a battlefield nears Flers at night. Frank Rossitor Crozier was a painter and illustrator. Born in Maryborough, ...ART00224
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Five Australians, members of a field artillery brigade, passing along a duckboard track over mud ...
Photograph
Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Five Australians, members of a field artillery brigade, passing along a duckboard track over mud and water among gaunt bare tree trunks in the devastated Chateau Wood, a portion of one of the battlegr...E01220
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Flanders, 1917 (verso: two crayon drawings)
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts an atmospheric and war damaged landscapes and the remains of a battlefield on the Western Front. In May 1916 Louis McCubbin enlisted with 14th Battalion AIF. He served in France from 2 Nov 191...ART09450
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France. c. 1918. British Army soldiers passing through a wrecked area as they carry duckboards up ...
Photograph
France. c. 1918. British Army soldiers passing through a wrecked area as they carry duckboards up to the forward trenches.H08915
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France. c. 1918. Chinese Labour Corps personnel unloading trench duckboards from railway trucks.
Photograph
France. c. 1918. Chinese Labour Corps personnel unloading trench duckboards from railway trucks.H09479
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
Art
Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.013
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
Art
Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.004
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
Art
Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.008
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
Art
Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.014
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Gatliff, Charles Edwin (Captain, b.1882 - d.1959)
Private Record
Maker: Gatliff, Charles Edwin
Collection relating to service of Captain Charles Edwin Gatliff, 4 Light Horse Regiment [later 50 & 51 Field Artillery Battery, 13 Field Artillery Brigade], Egypt, France and Belgium. Collection incl...1DRL/0309
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G.O.C. Office 1st D.H.Q.
Art
Depicts the headquarters office of the General Officer Commanding of the 1st Division AIF, set in Buire Wood, part of the Hindenberg out post line. There are several huts and duckboard paths depicted ...ART03402
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Grave of a pal
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a soldier standing beside the simple cross of a friend's grave, in a war damaged landscape. Frank Crozier (1883-1948) worked as a decorator and clerk and attended the National Gallery of Victo...ART00219
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Gray, Harold James
Private Record
Maker: Gray, Harold James
Black and white photocopies of typed extracts from three letters written by 7150 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Harold James Gray who served with the 8th Battalion AIF during 1916 and 1917. The extracts are f...PR05438
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In the Switch Trench near Flers
Art
Depicts an image of part of a switch trench, with duckboards and sandbags, and a soldier wearing a tin helmet in the foreground, near Flers, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war ar...ART02361
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"Iron Gate, looking west down Ultimo Avenue CT [communication trench]. Note the duck boards ...
Photograph
Maker: Harvey, William Wyatt
"Iron Gate, looking west down Ultimo Avenue CT [communication trench]. Note the duck boards leading into the trench round to the right, which leads to Au Chasseur Cabaret & to FL [front line]." 'There...P09534.019
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Jackson, Herbert Kohry (Corporal, b.? - d.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Jackson, Herbert Kohry
Collection relating to the service of 3671 Corporal Herbert Kohry Jackson, 8 Battalion, AIF, Egypt, France, 1916. Collection includes photostat copies of letters written by Corporal Jackson to his fa...1DRL/0378
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Lane, Lionel William (Lieutenant)
Private Record
Maker: Lane, Lionel William
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Lionel William Lane, 53 Battalion, AIF, France, England, 1917. Collection contains a copy of short extracts from Lieutenant Lane's diary , and copies ...1DRL/0407
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Laying the duckboards, France 1917
Art
Maker: Bell, George
Depicts soldiers from a Pioneer unit laying a duckboard track across muddy fields in a war damaged landscape, probably in the Ypres Salient, France in 1917. The soldiers are wearing sandbags around th...ART03592
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Medical orderlies at the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station near Steenwerck moving patients ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Medical orderlies at the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station near Steenwerck moving patients over duckboard walkways (to avoid the muddy ground) using a two-tiered stretcher holder on wheels. Th...P00156.061
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Men and pack mules rounding Idiot Corner, on Westhoek Ridge, in Belgium, moving up to the front ...
Photograph
Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Men and pack mules rounding Idiot Corner, on Westhoek Ridge, in Belgium, moving up to the front line. To follow the duckboard and corduroy track was to be seen silhouetted against the skyline, both fr...E01480
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Near Le Barque, France. Five unidentified Australian Pioneers making a duckboard bridge across ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Near Le Barque, France. Five unidentified Australian Pioneers making a duckboard bridge across the trenches of the 'Maze'.E00210
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Not titled [bow huts]
Art
Maker: Meldrum, J B
A bow hut has exploded sending up a huge blast. Soldiers duck or run for cover around the other bow hut. The huts are covered in snow, while in the foreground a man on horseback, and a horse and sup...ART03192.006
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Not titled [Military camp huts]
Art
Maker: Meldrum, J B
This work shows two rows of military camp huts. They appear to be made of galvanised metal. Some have chimneys billowing smoke. Several figures lounge in doorways and one walks across the duckboard...ART03192.004
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not titled [track and dump looking towards the front line]
Art
Maker: Meldrum, J B
A line of duckboards has been laid down through the middle of a forest. The trees look dead while soldiers move along the track, pushing supplies or carrying rifles. In the distance, detonating bomb...ART03192.009
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Not titled [Workshop and base for trench supplies]
Art
Maker: Meldrum, J B
Australian soldiers, as distinguished by their slouch hats are at work in and around a large workshop. soldiers construct duckboards while there are piles of wood lying around. Horses and cards and ...ART03192.005
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Old duckboards
Art
Maker: Lindsay, Daryl Ernest
Depicts a scene of old duck boards across a snow covered landscape with damaged trees.ART02976
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Old Left Brigade Headquarters near Flers
Art
Depicts a image of a shelter, the old Left Brigade Headquarters, near Flers, France, covered in sandbags, with piles of debris, duckboards and power lines near by. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02378