Members of D Company, 5th Australian Pioneer Battalion near Dranoutre, erecting sheds in Donegal ...

Accession Number E01311
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Heuvelland, Dranoutre
Date made 23 November 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Members of D Company, 5th Australian Pioneer Battalion near Dranoutre, erecting sheds in Donegal Camp, to shelter horses during the winter; the huts in rear are those occupied by the men. Donegal Camp was situated on the right of the road leading from Lindenhoek through Dranoutre to Bailleul. The high ground seen in the top right is a slope leading up to Mont Kemmel. Identified: 836 Pte A. L. J. Dixon (1); 2410 Private (Pte) A. T. G. Paterson (2); 2371 Pte W. Jaks (3); unidentified (4); 1853 Pte G. Earl (5); 3363 Pte R. J. Duffield (6); 3401 Sergeant (Sgt) W. Marshall (7); 2413 Pte M. B. Pelling (8); 2346 Pte W. H. Birbeck (killed in action 23 March 1918) (9); 2474 Sgt R. R. Winters (10); 2152 Corporal J. A. McLeod MM (11); 4222 Pte B. Slocombe (12); 2695 Pte Francis (13); 2366 Pte B. W. Hancock (14); 2571 Pte F. A. Burgess (15); 2171 Pte H. A. Grix MM (16); 3561 Pte W. J. Brewer (17). See E01311K for position of those named in this caption.

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