A 9.2 inch gun of the 2nd Australian Siege Battery (55th Australian Siege Artillery Battery) in ...

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Accession Number E00694
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Voormezeele
Date made September 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

A 9.2 inch gun of the 2nd Australian Siege Battery (55th Australian Siege Artillery Battery) in action. Identified, background, left to right (standing): 856 Staff Sergeant F G Dobson MM; 199 Bombardier W Carlin DCM; 814 Gunner (Gnr) H C Johns; 362 Gnr W Fotheringham; 695 Gnr R H Parkes; 700 Gnr T Garry; 699 Gnr C W D McRae. Foreground, left to right: 552 Gnr J V Lawrence; 777 Gnr H J Kitching (beside Lawrence); 31687 Gnr J D Boydell; 172 Sergeant L Franks (beside Boydell); 196 Corporal G F Brown.