Two unidentified Australian soldiers, accompanied by a horse, gathering coal left by German ...

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Accession Number E00364
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
Date made 3 March 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Two unidentified Australian soldiers, accompanied by a horse, gathering coal left by German forces on the Bapaume road near the Butte de Warlencourt (background centre). This area was in no man's land during the 1916-1917 winter. The coal eggs (compressed coal dust) were also strewn around Le Sars Railway Station.