The conditions immediately behind the front during the Somme winter. Infantrymen drinking coffee ...

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Accession Number E00051
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half-plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Longueval
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

The conditions immediately behind the front during the Somme winter. Infantrymen drinking coffee at the Australian Comforts Fund stall. The men serving at this stall are 3774 Private (Pte) A Gunn and 3209 Pte C Neild. Pte Gunn was killed on 25 March 1917 when the Bapaume Town Hall was blown up by a delayed German mine. Pte Neild, was killed in action on 27 March 1917 at Bapaume.