Members of the Australian 1st Division Pioneers digging out a gun belonging to the 104 Howitzer ...

Places
Accession Number E01076
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres, Menin Road, Hannebeek
Date made 4 October 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

Members of the Australian 1st Division Pioneers digging out a gun belonging to the 104 Howitzer Battalion which was trying to haul their gun forward after the advance near Hannebeek, in the Ypres Sector. Identified are: Sergeant (Sgt) J Howell (leaning on a shovel, behind the Howitzer, second from the left); Private Sadler, (centre foreground beside the Howitzers wheel); Sgt Pallbrook (standing behind Sadler); Lieutenant McCullagh (or O'Toole) (extreme right smoking pipe).