Informal group portrait of unidentified Australian soldiers sporting helmets (Pickelhauben) and ...

Place Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Pozieres Area, Pozieres
Accession Number EZ0135
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original quarter plate negative
Maker Brooke, John Warwick
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Pozieres Area, Pozieres
Date made 23 July 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal group portrait of unidentified Australian soldiers sporting helmets (Pickelhauben) and caps captured from the Germans in the battle of Pozieres. Some have their hands raised, possibly in a feigned gesture of surrender. In the front on the ground is a Lewis gun.