| Places | |
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| Accession Number | E01220 |
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Glass original whole-plate negative |
| Maker |
Hurley, James Francis (Frank) |
| Place made | Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres, Menin Road, Chateau Wood, Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres, Menin Road, Chateau Wood |
| Date made | 29 October 1917 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Five Australians, members of a field artillery brigade, passing along a duckboard track over mud ...
Description
Five Australians, members of a field artillery brigade, passing along a duckboard track over mud and water among gaunt bare tree trunks in the devastated Chateau Wood, a portion of one of the battlegrounds in the Ypres salient. Left to right: 34158 Gunner (Gnr) James Macrea Fulton, 110 Battery, 10th Field Artillery Brigade; Lieutenant Anthony Devine; Sergeant Clive Stewart Smith. It has also been claimed that the third soldier from the left is 34451 Gnr Hubert Lionel Nichols with his brother 25180 Gnr Douglas Roy Nichols, immediately behind. The Nichols brothers both served in the 110th Howitzer Battery. All the identified men in this group served in 4th Australian Division artillery units. The last man in the group is unknown.