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A captured German machine gun being used by the Battalion machine gun officer of the 3rd Division ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A captured German machine gun being used by the Battalion machine gun officer of the 3rd Division near Marett Wood as a camp defence against enemy aeroplanes.E02200
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A commanding position overlooking Dernancourt. On the right is seen an abandoned German machine ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A commanding position overlooking Dernancourt. On the right is seen an abandoned German machine gun in its position covering the slope up which the Australians advanced earlier in the month. This gun ...E02109
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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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Australian machine gunners returning from the front line trenches to their billets, in France. ...
Photograph
Maker: British Official Photograph Unknown British Official Photographer
Australian machine gunners returning from the front line trenches to their billets, in France. (Original British Official Photographer caption.) The Australian machine gunners have been identified as ...EZ0079
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BELLEAU WOOD, FRANCE, 1914-18 WAR. GERMAN MACHINE GUNNERS RETREATING.
Photograph
BELLEAU WOOD, FRANCE, 1914-18 WAR. GERMAN MACHINE GUNNERS RETREATING.P00105.027
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Bergmann MG15 Light Machine Gun
Technology
Maker: Bergmanns Industriewerke Bergmanns Industriewerke
Bergmann MG15 Light Machine Gun. The receiver is marked 1917 Bergmanns Industriewerke ABT. Waffenbau. SUHL. All metal contruction with a perforated barrel jacket. The butt and checkered pistol grip ar...RELAWM03664
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Bridge, Henry (Private, b.? - d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Bridge, Henry
Collection relating to service of 504 Private Henry Bridge, 2 Machine Gun Battalion, France, 1916-1918. Collection includes letters written home to family in England from training camp in Australia a...1DRL/0151
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Collection lent by Major H Tolley
Photograph
Dummy tanks, used successfully by the 4th Australian Division in the attack on Le Verguier in September 1918. These tanks, ten in number, were made by the 4th Field Company, Australian Engineers, enti...C04505
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Collection of material relating to Stephen Charles Allen and Robert Beattie Allen, 1916-1944
Digitised Collection
Maker: Various
Letters and documents relating to the First World War service of 3002 Private Stephen Charles Allen and 3003 Private Robert Beattie Allen, 13th Infantry Battalion. The collection contains personal cor...RCDIG0000929
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Easton, George Campbell (Corporal)
Private Record
Maker: Easton, George Campbell
Collection relating to service of 554 Corporal George Campbell Easton, 2 Machine Gun Battalion, France, 1917. Collection includes typewritten extracts from letters written home to family in Sydney, N...1DRL/0255
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Enemy dead in one of the trenches at Montbrehain, two days after the capture of the village by ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Enemy dead in one of the trenches at Montbrehain, two days after the capture of the village by the 21st and 24th Battalions guarding the flank. The place was thick with enemy dead, there were over 500...E03779
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Falconer, Douglas (Lieutenant, b.1886 - d.1949)
Private Record
Maker: Falconer, Douglas
Collection relating to the First World War service of Second Lieutenant Douglas Falconer, 15th Field Ambulance, Belgium, 23 - 28 September, 1917. Wallet 1 of 1 - This collection consists of a short ...2DRL/0524
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FRANCE, 1916-1918. ANZACS IN FRANCE. MACHINE GUNNERS OUT OF THE TRENCHES. WITH A SWINGING ...
Photograph
FRANCE, 1916-1918. ANZACS IN FRANCE. MACHINE GUNNERS OUT OF THE TRENCHES. WITH A SWINGING BACK-TO-BILLETS STEP THESE ANZACS ARE LEAVING TRENCH DUTY FOR THEIR WELL-EARNED REST.P00077.008
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France. August 1918. Pile of captured German MG08/15 machine guns and gun carriages discarded ...
Photograph
France. August 1918. Pile of captured German MG08/15 machine guns and gun carriages discarded after capture during the Battle of Amiens, 8 August 1918. (Original held in AWM Archive Store)P01546.004
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FRANCE. 1918-08. REMAINS OF A GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN MOUNT (A HOTCHKISS 37MM REVOLVING ...
Photograph
FRANCE. 1918-08. REMAINS OF A GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN MOUNT (A HOTCHKISS 37MM REVOLVING CANNON) CAPTURED BY AUSTRALIAN TROOPS ON 1918-08-08 DURING THE BATTLE OF AMIENS. (ORIGINAL HELD IN AWM ...P01546.003
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FRENCH FRONT. ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN. KITE BALLOON IN BACKGROUND.
Photograph
FRENCH FRONT. ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN. KITE BALLOON IN BACKGROUND.H18008
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HIGH WOOD, FRANCE, 1917-06. GERMAN MACHINE GUN STRONG POINT.
Photograph
HIGH WOOD, FRANCE, 1917-06. GERMAN MACHINE GUN STRONG POINT.P00260.003
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Hotchkiss Model 14 Machine Gun
Technology
Hotchkiss Model 14 Medium Machine Gun. Rectangular steel box section receiver with a brass pistol grip and rear spade grip. The receiver is marked MITRAILEUSE AUTOMATIQUE HOTCHKISS BREVETTE S.G.D.G. C...RELAWM00887
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Infantry of the 1st Division moving up in the advance near Harbonnieres, just after a Whippet ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Infantry of the 1st Division moving up in the advance near Harbonnieres, just after a Whippet tank (background) had finally disposed of a line of machine gun emplacements which had held up the infantr...E02878
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Jackson, Harry Melville (Sergeant, b.1893 - d.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Jackson, Harry Melville
Collection relating to the service of 1766 Sergeant Harry Melville Jackson, 13 Battalion, Australia, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, 1915-1916. Collection consists of letters sent by Harry Jackson to his m...1DRL/0379
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Jill Morrison reads an account of an interview she conducted with 743A Private George Ferrier about his experiences with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion during the First World War
Sound
Maker: Ferrier, George Morrison, Jill Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Jill Morrison reads an account of an interview she conducted with 743A Private George Ferrier about his experiences with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion during the First World War Interview covered: ea...S02042
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Letter and postcards from Francis Reardon, 1917 - 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Reardon, Francis
Letters and postcards relating to the First World War service of 251 Private Francis (Frank) Reardon, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion. The letters and postcards were written by Private Reardon to his family...RCDIG0000371
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Letters from Wilfred Denver Gallwey to his family, January to July 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Gallwey, Wilfred Denver
Letters relating to the First World War service of 2430 Lance Corporal Wilfred Denver Gallwey, 47th Battalion. The letters were written to various members of his immediate family between January and J...RCDIG0001139
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Letters of James Stuart Leslie Ross, 1916-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Ross, James Stuart Leslie
Letters relating to the First World War service of 589 Lieutenant James Stuart Leslie Ross, 2nd Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. In his letters to his parents written between 29 October 1916 and 2...AWM2019.22.230
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Lewis gun mounted near Glisy
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A Lewis Light Machine Gun (LMG) is mounted on a makeshift pedestal in a weapon pit surrounded by sandbags at the Battle of Hamel. The gun was used as an anti-aircraft weapon. In the background are ten...ART03501
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Machine gun remains
Art
Maker: Wilson, Eric
A sketch of a the ruins of a machine gun in front of the German Front Line at Beaumont Hamel in northern France. After being awarded a Travelling Art scholarship in 1937, Eric Wilson studied in Europ...ART28840
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Maxim MG08 Heavy Machine Gun and Sled Mount : Private G Cartwright, 33 Battalion, AIF
Technology
German Maxim MG08 Heavy Machine Gun and Sledge Mount. The top cover has MG08 but does not have the manufacturer name or the date. The serial number is on the receiver left side. It has CAPTURED BY 33R...RELAWM00981
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Maxim Sledge Mount : Private G Cartwright, 33 Battalion, AIF
Technology
German Maxim MG08 Heavy Machine Gun and Sledge Mount.RELAWM00981.002
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Nixon Smith, John R (Private, 31st Bn b.1894 - d.1918)
Private Record
Collection relating to the First World War Service of 4815a Private John Richard Nixon-Smith, 31 Battalion, France, 1918. Wallet 1 of 1 - Wallet contains letters from Nixon-Smith to his father, and m...2DRL/0271
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Notebook of James Stuart Leslie Ross
Digitised Collection
Maker: Ross, James Stuart Leslie
Diary relating to the First World War service of 589 Lieutenant James Stuart Leslie Ross, 2nd Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Ross’ diary contains brief, irregular entries dated between 1 January...AWM2019.22.234
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PROBABLY FRANCE, C.1918. LIEUTENANT JOHN RUTHERFORD GORDON FAMILIARIZES HIMSELF WITH A LEWIS ...
Photograph
PROBABLY FRANCE, C.1918. LIEUTENANT JOHN RUTHERFORD GORDON FAMILIARIZES HIMSELF WITH A LEWIS MACHINE GUN, MODIFIED FOR FITTING TO AIRCRAFT. (DONOR - B. GORDON).P00048.015
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The body of a dead German at the foot of the ruins of a church was one of a number of the enemy ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
The body of a dead German at the foot of the ruins of a church was one of a number of the enemy forming the machine gun and sniping posts mopped up by the 21st and 23rd Battalions in their clearing ou...E02367
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The entanglements between Lormisset Farm and Mushroom Quarry in the Masnieres-Beaurevoir system, ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
The entanglements between Lormisset Farm and Mushroom Quarry in the Masnieres-Beaurevoir system, behind the main Hindenburg Line. This system was well wired, but with trenches only a few inches deep. ...E03583
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The grave of Count Richthofen (the famous German airman, who was brought down by the australian ...
Photograph
The grave of Count Richthofen (the famous German airman, who was brought down by the australian machine gun fire) at Bertangles.C04890
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10th Machine Gun Company Headquarters
Art
Depicts a view into the entrance of the 10th Machine Gun Company Headquarters on the Western Front, with duckboards, barbed wire and debris in front of it, in a war damaged landscape. Dyson wrote that...ART09926
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Three soldiers of No 4 Section of the 22nd Machine Gun Company shooting at a German aircraft ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Three soldiers of No 4 Section of the 22nd Machine Gun Company shooting at a German aircraft flying low over the Bullecourt battlefield. Identified from left to right: 396B Lance Corporal Roy James Do...E00458
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Transcript of letters from Arthur Thomas to his family, 1915-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Thomas, Arthur G
Letters relating to the First World War service of 3470 Corporal Arthur Thomas, 6th Battalion. These letters, written between 15 October 1915 and 7 June 1918, were transcribed into one document by th...RCDIG0001095
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Two soldiers in trench with Lewis gun
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts two Australian soldiers, one who is smoking a pipe, standing in a trench near a gun mount with a Lewis gun, during the First World War. Charles Bryant had some early art lessons before beginni...ART00161
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Wallet 1 of 1 - Personal narrative of Lieutenant Douglas Falconer, 23 - 28 September, 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Falconer, Douglas
Collection relating to the First World War service of Second Lieutenant Douglas Falconer, 15th Field Ambulance, Belgium, 23 - 28 September, 1917. Wallet 1 of 1 - This collection consists of a short ...AWM2021.7.7