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An eighteen pounder of the 30th Battery of Australian Field Artillery, in action in an open ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An eighteen pounder of the 30th Battery of Australian Field Artillery, in action in an open field. Left to right: 35900 Gunner (Gnr) E. Hauser; 29153 Corporal S. M. Short; 22209 Bombardier V. R. McDow...E03045
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An enemy aeroplane brought down by an Australian machine gunner, on 23 March 1918. Identified: ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An enemy aeroplane brought down by an Australian machine gunner, on 23 March 1918. Identified: far left is 8464Driver William Samuel Locke; and second from left, squatting, is 17838 Private C. Woollam...E03046
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An enemy armour plated, two seated, fighting biplane, brought down early in October near Sonja ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An enemy armour plated, two seated, fighting biplane, brought down early in October near Sonja Wood, in the Beaurevoir Sector.E03767
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An extensively damaged A7V tank near Villers-Bretonneux. This is apparently tank 561 Nixe in ...
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An extensively damaged A7V tank near Villers-Bretonneux. This is apparently tank 561 Nixe in which Second Lieutenant Wilhelm Biltz of Abteilung 2 fought the first tank versus tank battle on 24 April 1...P01726.002
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An F.E. night bombing machine Serial No. D9962 effecting a landing near No. 3 Australian General ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An F.E. night bombing machine Serial No. D9962 effecting a landing near No. 3 Australian General Hospital (3AGH). The open fields hereabouts provided excellent landing grounds.E03734
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Angus, George Grant Geddes (Private, b.? - d.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Angus, George Grant Geddes
Collection relating to the service of 4127 Private George Grant Geddes Angus, 1 Pioneer Battalion, France, 1916. Collection includes letters written by Angus to his parents and an account of his jour...1DRL/0044
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Angus, John Collingwood (Private, b.1892 - d.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Angus, John Collingwood
Collection relating to the First World War service of 591 Private John Collingwood Angus, 28 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1915-1916. Collection consists of copies of three letters written by Angu...1DRL/0045
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A night march past Querrieu
Art
Depicts a large number of troops marching along a roadway, as part of a march past, at night, under moonlight near Querrieu, France in April 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war arti...ART02413
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An improvised 'sleeper-log' road across a ditch near Bapaume. Following the retirement of the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An improvised 'sleeper-log' road across a ditch near Bapaume. Following the retirement of the enemy and his destruction of bridges and culverts, our engineers had the large task of repairing the roads...E00433
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An informal portrait of Brigadier-General (later Major General) T. W. Glasgow CB CMG DSO (left) ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An informal portrait of Brigadier-General (later Major General) T. W. Glasgow CB CMG DSO (left) and two Staff Officers on the 1st Division, Lieutenant A. Norrie MC (centre), and Captain G. F. Priestle...E02807
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An informal portrait of Major D J Glasfurd (later Brigadier General), Argyle and Sutherland ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
An informal portrait of Major D J Glasfurd (later Brigadier General), Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. Major Glasfurd was, at the time, GSO 1st Australian Division. He was mortally wounded at 'Che...A00876
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A Nissen hut camp on the Somme
Art
Depicts a camp site on the Somme in 1917, consisting of a number of Nissen huts, piles of supplies, a rubbish dump and men working on a power pole. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war art...ART02367
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Annand, Frederick William Gadsby (Lieutenant Colonel, b.1872 - d.1958)
Private Record
Maker: Annand, Frederick William Gadsby
Collection relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick William Gadsby Annand, 7th Field Company Engineers and 2nd Australian Pioneer Battalion. Collection consists of five ...PR89/034
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An Officer of the 2nd Division, Second Lieutenant W. Ruthven, receiving the Victoria Cross at a ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An Officer of the 2nd Division, Second Lieutenant W. Ruthven, receiving the Victoria Cross at a presentation ceremony held by Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, near Camon.E02730
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An old French veteran of the 1879 Franco-Prussian war shakes hands with Australian soldier, 1670 ...
Photograph
Maker: British Official Photograph
An old French veteran of the 1879 Franco-Prussian war shakes hands with Australian soldier, 1670 Sergeant Robert (Robin) Potter, 6th Battalion from Bairnsdale, Victoria (later appointed Second Lieuten...EZ0034
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An old Frenchwoman serves coffee to six unidentified Australian and Scottish soldiers at an ...
Photograph
Maker: British Official Photograph
An old Frenchwoman serves coffee to six unidentified Australian and Scottish soldiers at an estaminet (small cafe) in her village, which is within 800 yards of the trenches in a comparatively quiet se...EZ0032
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Anonymous
Private Record
Maker: Anonymous
Correspondence between Sneddon family members in Australia, France and the Netherlands, 1916 - 1928.PR01527
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Anonymous
Private Record
NOTEBOOK PROBABLY KEPT BY AN ARTILLERY OFFICER ATTENDING A SHORT COURSE OF LECTURES. INCLUDES SECTIONS ON POSITIONING GUNS, OBSERVATION, ANGLES, TRANSPORT, AMMUNITION, GUNNERY, MAP READING, AEROPLANES...PR85/436
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Anonymous
Private Record
Maker: Anonymous
Copy of a letter written by a soldier in France to a friend, dated 7 June 1918.PR01544
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Anonymous
Manuscript
Article entitled "Army riddles strange devices and their meaning" by "Observer". Concerns the abolition of metal distinguishing badges and numerals. Worn on shoulder strap by Australian soldiers and t...MSS0849
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Anonymous
Private Record
Maker: Unknown
Collection of documents of unknown authorship. Collection consists of typescript extracts from a diary apparently originally written by a Lieutenant in 1 Pioneer Battalion, AIF, (extracts cover the p...1DRL/0493
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Anonymous (German Army)
Private Record
DIARY - DAILY ENTRIES FOR AUG - SEPT 1918. DESCRIBES CONDITIONS AT THE FRONT AND DUTIES. TRAINING NOTES ON THE MORTAR IN FIRST PART OF DIARY. ENGLISH TRANSLATION3DRL/7566(B)
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(Anonymous Poet)
Private Record
POEM ENTITLED "THE SORROWFUL SNIPER" SET IN FLANDERS RELATING THE PROBLEMS OF CAMOUFLAGE PAINTPR83/009
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Anonymous Soldier
Private Record
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM ENGLAND AND GENERAL NOTE FROM FRANCEPR85/313
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Anonymous (21st Bn AIF)
Private Record
LETTER TO HIS BROTHER, WRITTEN SOON AFTER ARRIVAL IN BRITAIN, MENTIONING THE TORPEDOING OF THE "BALLARAT", AN AIR RAID ON LONDON AND THE FUN HE HAD ON LEAVE IN BRISTOL. A LATER LETTER FROM FRANCE URGE...PR87/153
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Anonymous (Stretcher Bearer, AIF)
Private Record
LETTER WRITTEN BY AN ANONYMOUS SOLDIER TELLING OF HIS EXPERIENCES AS A STRETCHER BEARER NEAR THE HINDENBURG LINE AND BULLECOURT WHERE HE WAS WOUNDED. HE TELLS OF HIS WOUNDING AND EVACUATION TO ENGLANDPR87/184
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Another batch of Jerrys
Art
Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a mounted Australian officer with his bayonet rifle stowed on his back, leading a groupe of German soldiers, or 'Jerrys', along a road lined with bomb damaged trees. Standing on the side of th...ART02656.004
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An outdoors group portrait of members of the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion. Identified: Private ...
Photograph
An outdoors group portrait of members of the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion. Identified: Private (Pte) Thomson (1); Corporal (Cpl) Gregory (2); Pte Tracey (3); unidentified (4); unidentified (5); Pte Munn...E05153
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An outdoors group portrait of staff of the 3rd Australian General Hospital. Identified: 16118 ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An outdoors group portrait of staff of the 3rd Australian General Hospital. Identified: 16118 Private (Pte) R Vardill (1); 6556 Pte R M Macaw (2); 14985 Pte A J Stott (3); 1144 Pte H Teeson (4); 4423...E02560A
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An outdoors group portrait of the staff of the 3rd Australian General Hospital. Identified: 6247 ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An outdoors group portrait of the staff of the 3rd Australian General Hospital. Identified: 6247 Private (Pte) W Sharpen (1); 15943 Pte M W Wellington (2); 3200 Pte J W Woods (3); 11033 Corporal (Cpl...E02560B
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An RE8 Aircraft named Sylvia, of 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), with Lieutenant (Lt) ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
An RE8 Aircraft named Sylvia, of 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), with Lieutenant (Lt) Rupert Christopher Fenwicke, Observer, sitting in the cockpit (left); Lt Jack Joseph Pengilley, Pilot, ...P01457.002
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An R.E.8 aircraft, serial number A3662, 'J', presented to the Australian Flying Corps by Mr H ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An R.E.8 aircraft, serial number A3662, 'J', presented to the Australian Flying Corps by Mr H Teesdale Smith of Adelaide, SA. It is seen here in the grounds of the airfield of the 3rd Squadron, AFC, a...E01359
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An RE8 of 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, doing reconnaissance duty over the Australian ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An RE8 of 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, doing reconnaissance duty over the Australian lines when the breakthrough of the Hindenburg defences had been practically achieved.E03518
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An SE5A aircraft of the 2nd Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, effecting a landing near Lille.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An SE5A aircraft of the 2nd Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, effecting a landing near Lille.E03730
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An SE5 British aeroplane, with Captain Phillipps DFC MC, of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), in ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
An SE5 British aeroplane, with Captain Phillipps DFC MC, of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), in the pilot's seat. The DH5 machines initially used by the AFC were subsequently replaced by these aerop...C02803
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An S.E.5 Type aircraft at Baizieux. One of the new machines supplied to the 68th Australian ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An S.E.5 Type aircraft at Baizieux. One of the new machines supplied to the 68th Australian Squadron (No. 2 Australian Flying Corps (AFC)), after the Cambrai Battle. Identified, left to right: Corpora...E01446
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Antill, John Macquarie (Major General, b.1866 - d.1937)
Private Record
Maker: Antill, John Macquarie
Collection relating to the Boer War and First World War service of Major General John Macquarie Antill, NSW Mounted Rifles and 3rd Light Horse Regiment. WAR DIARY 1915 - 3RD LH BDE. LETTER TO ANTILL ...3DRL/3607
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Antill, Robert Edmund (Corporal, b.1897 - d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Antill, Robert Edmund
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1228 Corporal Robert Edmund Antill, 14 Battalion, Gallipoli, Egypt and France, 1914-1917. Collection consists of over ninety letters written by C...1DRL/0047
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An unidentified Australian artilleryman on horse back watering his horse at a stream. Note the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An unidentified Australian artilleryman on horse back watering his horse at a stream. Note the surrounding snow and a sign in the centre which reads 'Avis, Tres Dangereux'.E00128
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An unidentified Australian soldier attempting to obtain a drink under a frozen tank. The winter ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An unidentified Australian soldier attempting to obtain a drink under a frozen tank. The winter of 1916-1917 was the first winter the Australians experienced in France and its severity served to hard...E00171
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An unidentified Australian soldier chats to two village children and fills a bucket with water ...
Photograph
Maker: British Official Photographer
An unidentified Australian soldier chats to two village children and fills a bucket with water from the pump while his mate pulls the pump handle. The two were billeted at a farm south of Armentieres...EZ0036
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An unidentified Australian soldier, wearing a gas mask, demonstrates the sounding of the gas ...
Photograph
Maker: British Official Photographer
An unidentified Australian soldier, wearing a gas mask, demonstrates the sounding of the gas alarm in a muddy front line area. The alarm, consisting of a bell mounted on a tripod, was sounded to warn...EZ0050
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An unidentified Australian soldier with a German boy soldier standing in front of a church.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An unidentified Australian soldier with a German boy soldier standing in front of a church.E02218
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An unidentified member of the 69th Australian Squadron, later designated No. 3 Australian Flying ...
Photograph
Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
An unidentified member of the 69th Australian Squadron, later designated No. 3 Australian Flying Corps (AFC), fixing incendiary bombs to an R.E.8 aircraft at the AFC airfield north west of Arras. The ...E01176
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An unidentified member of the 39th Battalion cutting a piece of bread for his midday meal while ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An unidentified member of the 39th Battalion cutting a piece of bread for his midday meal while in the front line trenches. Resting on the ledge in front of him is his dixie and to the left is his ri...E00084
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An unidentified member of the 39th Battalion, wearing winter clothing, standing in a ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An unidentified member of the 39th Battalion, wearing winter clothing, standing in a communication trench before Houplines.E00086
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An unidentified nurse preparing a patient in the pre-operation ward of the 1st Australian ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An unidentified nurse preparing a patient in the pre-operation ward of the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station. This image was the inspiration for an artwork painted by Frank Crozier. In 1936 Cro...E01305
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An unidentified soldier at an Australian infantry company headquarters in the trenches sets up a ...
Photograph
Maker: British Official Photographer
An unidentified soldier at an Australian infantry company headquarters in the trenches sets up a type of wind vane used to indicate wind direction. Wind is the main factor in determining where gas wi...EZ0012
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An unidentified soldier stands beside a crater made by a German minenwerfer (trench mortar) bomb ...
Photograph
Maker: British Official Photograph
An unidentified soldier stands beside a crater made by a German minenwerfer (trench mortar) bomb that fell just behind the front trench of the 11th Battalion near the Cordonnerie Farm during the bomba...EZ0057
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An unidentified soldier views a captured German A7V tank, named 'Elfriede' at Saleux, with four ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An unidentified soldier views a captured German A7V tank, named 'Elfriede' at Saleux, with four holes made by armour piercing bullets. These can be seen on the left outline of the iron cross marking. ...E02369