An Advanced Dressing Station known as 'Pearl Bay ADS'. The station was under the control of 6th ...

An Advanced Dressing Station known as 'Pearl Bay ADS'. The station was under the control of 6th Australian Field Ambulance from 8 May 1918 to 15 June 1918 before being handed over to the 14th Australian Field Ambulance. It was through this Dressing Station that most of the wounded from Ville-sur-Ancre-Stunt passed through. The bomb proof dressing room is in the centre, the shelved dug-outs on the right are for wounded awaiting attention, and the dug-outs for personnel and the officers quarters are on the far right. In the foreground (far left) is a water carrier with a cylindrical water purifer. Identified from left to right: 8993 Private (Pte) F J R Small; 3560 Sergeant (Sgt) Cowper MM; 8994 Pte J M S Wasson MM; two unidentified; 14993 Pte Oswald Arthur J G Roberts (sitting); 17957 Pte L K McNally (sitting); 6560 Pte L E Payne (sitting); 4192 Pte T H Cruise (sitting); 14983 Pte William Daniel Jones (standing); unidentified (standing); 17057 Pte B Williams (standing); 225 Pte M J Coffey (standing); 7867 Pte L T Graves (sitting); 3136 Sgt Les Lambert (standing); 10449 Pte E Lyons. This is a digitally combined composite panorama made up of two separate images. It is only available as a digital print. The two images are also available separately at E02482 and E02483.