Informal portrait of Captain James Francis (Frank) Hurley, Australian Official Photographer, ...

Accession Number E01059
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Pozieres Area, Pozieres
Date made 29 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

Informal portrait of Captain James Francis (Frank) Hurley, Australian Official Photographer, standing beside a big German shell which had failed to explode when it fell on the Pozieres Road in France, during the fighting some time earlier. The shell has been chalked with a humorous message, 'Please don't take me home'.