An unidentified Australian soldier at a training camp in England, practising a bayonet attack on ...

Accession Number P03063.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Hollyhoke, Alexander David
Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England
Date made c 1916 - 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

An unidentified Australian soldier at a training camp in England, practising a bayonet attack on a dummy stuffed with straw lying on the ground. The soldier is wearing a PH helmet (Phenate Hexamine) which were used by British and Australian soldiers during the First world War to reduce the effects of gas attack.