A combined smith, carpenter, and general workshop manned by the 3rd Pioneer Battalion at Blangy ...

Place Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Amiens Harbonnieres Area, Blangy
Accession Number E02539
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Amiens Harbonnieres Area, Blangy
Date made 27 June 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

A combined smith, carpenter, and general workshop manned by the 3rd Pioneer Battalion at Blangy Tronville. The workshops were erected by the Battalion on arrival at the village. All the machinery etc shown in use, was 'salved' from forward evacuated villages. During the time we were here, much dugout work was done, and timber (mining set etc) was practically unobtainable from dumps. To get over this and proceed with dugouts, members of the Workshop Party were set to work felling timber. This was then floated down the canal, to the Workshops, cut into lengths, and sent forward. The electric lights were run by a small dynamo worked by the steam engine to the left. Identified: unidentified (1); Lieutenant S. Johnson (2); 225 J. Johnstone (3); 269 Private (Pte) J. E. McPherson (4); 218 Pte T. Hughes (5); 1611 Pte E. Neilson (6); 2918 Pte J. G. Walters (7); 2343 Pte R. A. Luff (8); 1503 Corporal W. Allen (9); 1618 Pte C. Marsh (10); 2196A Lance Corporal Stanley Wilson Cook (11); Pte T. Campbell (12). See E02539K for position of those named in this caption.