Unidentified members of the 39th Battalion partaking in hot coffee in the front line trenches ...

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Accession Number E00085
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Houplines
Date made December 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

Unidentified members of the 39th Battalion partaking in hot coffee in the front line trenches held by the battalion. Owing to the German observation of this sector their was great difficulty in getting hot meals to the men in the front line. Note the strombus horn, for gas alarms, above the man in the centre of the image.