The first aid post near Noreuil, showing stretcher bearers bringing in wounded during the ...

Accession Number E00514
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Bapaume Cambrai Area, Noreuil
Date made 7 May 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

The first aid post near Noreuil, showing stretcher bearers bringing in wounded during the fighting at Bullecourt. Note the pigeon baskets, in which messages carrying pigeons have been brought up by a despatch rider on a Triumph model H motor bike to a signal office in the vicinity for distribution among the attacking troops.

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