Collection relating to Thomas Charles Kelso

Accession Number P03608.029
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Western Front
Date made c 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A group of unidentified Australian soldiers from one of the Australian Railway Operating Companies with a German 1000 kilogram aerial bomb which was captured intact, inside its transport crate. These bombs were the largest kind dropped (by German Staaken R VI aircraft) during the First World War and were only used in limited numbers.

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