Local children and French and Australian soldiers congregate around two blackened men in native ...

Accession Number P08207.005
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Place made France
Date made c 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Local children and French and Australian soldiers congregate around two blackened men in native costume. The blackened men may be part of the entertainment at a sports day. This image in the collection of 3604 Private Sydney Herbert Swan, 4th Pioneers and latterly the Australian Graves Detachment, which unit located and moved graves on the Western Front battlefields.

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