Wounded soldiers being treated at an advanced dressing station near Ypres. Identified: 4186 ...

Place Europe: Belgium, Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres
Accession Number E00715
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres
Date made 19-20 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

Wounded soldiers being treated at an advanced dressing station near Ypres. Identified: 4186 Private Albert Doust, 5th Field Ambulance (left foreground); B Barwick [probably 2807 Basil Cecil Barwick, 5th Field Ambulance] (partially obscured by Doust, writing on a pad); Sergeant C W Smith (extreme right background, standing up); F McCaffrey (standing, right foreground, bandaging a patient's left arm); possibly 3109A Private (Pte) Herbert Alfred Hunter (centre, seated behind man with sling). Pte Hunter, of the 5th Pioneer Battalion, a farmer from Wagin, WA was killed in action on 30 July 1918.