Members of the Graves Registration Detachment, Australian section, of the Imperial War Graves ...

Accession Number	P04541.001
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker	Unknown
Date made	1919
Conflict	Period 1910-1919 First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Members of the Graves Registration Detachment, Australian section, of the Imperial War Graves unit loading bodies from a mass grave to be put in single graves. The bodies are wrapped in groundsheets with ID tags after exhumation and prior to reburial in permanent war cemeteries. Identified is 3162 Private Herbert James (Bert) Kingston (standing on the waggon). Formerly a member of the 47th Battalion, he enlisted from Bundaberg, Qld and sailed with the 8th Reinforcements.