The body of a dead German at the foot of the ruins of a church was one of a number of the enemy ...

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Accession Number E02367
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Corbie Albert Area, Ville-sur-Ancre
Date made 20 May 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

The body of a dead German at the foot of the ruins of a church was one of a number of the enemy forming the machine gun and sniping posts mopped up by the 21st and 23rd Battalions in their clearing out of the village during the 6th Brigade's early morning attack a week earlier.