Accession Number | E00226 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Glass original negative other |
Maker |
Unknown Australian Official Photographer |
Place made | France: Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Eaucourt l'Abbaye |
Date made | 28 February 1917 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Men of the 16th Battalion carrying full kit marching along a road. Identified leading the way is ...
Men of the 16th Battalion carrying full kit marching along a road. Identified leading the way is Lieutenant H Baldwin, the Australian Official photographer . In a footnote on page 420 of the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, Dr C E W Bean records that "on a hot day near the Canal du Nord Lt Baldwin took several photographs of the canal between the German and Australian lines. The day was hot, and Baldwin , and English press photographer, ready for any adventure, but physically small and delicated, drank some of the canal water, which is believed to have been polluted by the Germans. A few days later he became seriously ill, and, though he returned to the front for the Battle of Messines, he was soon forced to give up his work. He died a few years later" The man second from the front of the right hand column and carrying his rolled up blanket over his left shoulder is 6519 Private Horatio Rumble Ganson, 16th Battalion AIF.