Members of the 1st Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery, 1st Australian Division listening to ...

Accession Number P04060.006
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Place made France: Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Steenvoorde
Date made 28 October 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Members of the 1st Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery, 1st Australian Division listening to "the latest" from one of their comrades around a fire or possibly a kerosene lamp in a dugout billet at Ypres. Left to right, back row (standing): 1118 Private (Pte) Douglas Kyle MM (partially obscured by Gowrie); Pte Stanley Gowrie; 1647 Corporal (Cpl) Leslie Mason Williams MM (with moustache); Cpl Fox; Lance Corporal Reginald Perry; Pte Sid Wormald; Cpl Harry Brown (with moustache). Sitting: Pte S O'Sullivan (partially obscured by Gowrie); Pte William Eastwell (or P. Clifford); Pte Jackson; Pte Bennett; Cpl Turner MM (all facing camera). Foreground: 2353 Pte Sid Hoptroff; Pte W McDougall; Pte William Day. This image is also held at E01223.

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