Art

Depicts an abondoned trench on the Somme. The trench is in the foreground, with smashed trees on the edge and there are Nissan huts and tents in the background. The portion of the trench depicted is p...

ART09912

Photograph

Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer

A battery of the 3rd Australian Divisional Artillery established in an open position near Vaux-sur-Somme. Left to right: 31477 Gunner (Gnr) John Thomas Trim (died of wounds 30 March 1918); 19675 Gnr H...

E01864

Art

Maker: Crozier, Frank

Depicts an Australian Casualty Clearing Station (ACCS) in France. Red Cross tents are in the foreground with artillery shells are exploding just beyond them. Nurses and soldiers are in the foreground....

ART13334

Photograph

Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer

A detachment of the 5th Brigade passing through the infantry on the first objective and advancing with its allotted Mark V* Male tank towards the third objective near La Motte en Santerre (six miles f...

E03884

Art

Maker: Streeton, Arthur

Depicts the dressing station of the 6th Australian Field Ambulance in May 1918 amongst farm buildings belonging to the Smith family. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidel...

ART16250

Art

Depicts the advance dressing station of the Australian Forces 2nd Field Ambulance, with a motor ambulance in the background. In the foreground there is a table with medical supplies arranged on it, a ...

ART19763

Photograph

Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer

A file of the 56th Battalion in process of transfer to the northern side of the Somme near Clery-sur-Somme. While maintaining the attempts to cross the Somme marshes, General Monash transferred the 2n...

E03201

Photograph

Maker: Unknown

A general view of the city of Albert situated on the River Ancre near its junction with the Somme. The city was severly damaged by artillery fire in early 1916 during the fighting between British and ...

C04922

Photograph

Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer

A German sniper killed in the advance towards the Crucifix at the Calvaire Cross Roads, near Bray, where the 9th Brigade experienced heavy fighting on 22 August 1918. The Crucifix marked the approxima...

E03061

Photograph

Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer

A group of Australian soldiers on the hills overlooking Corbie, at the junction of the Somme and Ancre Rivers.

E04665

Technology

Maker: Morell, Wilhelm

Dial face from a German aircraft tachometer marked "4" TO "16". The face is white with black numerals. 97 mm dia. On the reverse is written "Fokker No.863. Brought down by a British aviator at Flers,...

REL/04359

Art

Maker: Longstaff, Will

Watercolour sketch depicting the Amiens Cathedral and surrounding village buildings. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Ho...

ART03002

Art

Maker: Boyd, Penleigh

The crumpled body of a young fallen soldier lying near a tree amongst a tangle of poppies. He lies with arms outstretched, his slouch hat and rifle abandoned on the grass beside him. This work is one ...

ART50232

Photograph

Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer

An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive. A powerful factor in weakening the German thrust across the old Somme battlefield was the continuous bombing by British aircraft. Both Nos 2 ...

E01882

Photograph

Maker: Unknown British Official Photographer

An aerial view of Pozieres after extensive artillery bombarded by both sides during the First Battle of the Somme. The 2nd and 4th Australian Divisions were at the time in possession of the village an...

J00268

Photograph

Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer

An Australian buying winkles (molluscs) from a French hawker in a village on the Somme where his battalion was resting during the winter of 1916-1917. Note the donkey on the right.

E00048

Photograph

Maker: Unknown

An Australian soldier standing on the remains of a carriage destroyed during the Battle of the Somme.

H00475A

Private Record

Maker: Anderson, James

Collection relating to the service of 815 Private James Anderson, 13 Battalion, France 1916. Collection includes letters to family describing recent trench action.

1DRL/0035

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

Heraldry

Maker: Abel Screen Printers

5 Machine Gun Battalion Association banner. The banner is made from two layers of black cotton fabric, edged on all sides with a 50 mm yellow furniture fringe. There are black and yellow screen printe...

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