A group portrait of unidentified officers of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during an ...

Accession Number A02634
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Duntroon
Date made June 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A group portrait of unidentified officers of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during an instructional course taken outside the vehicle shed at Duntroon. Two of the men in the front row seated first left and eighth from left are holding periscopes. The officers seated in the front row, third and fourth from left each have a hand on a gas cylinder and the officer seated sixth from left has a portable flame thrower in front of him. On the ground (centre) in front of the men are two periscopic rifles, flare pistols and a variety of hand grenades.

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