Lieutenant Colonel D. T. Moore CMG DSO, Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion, AIF (on the platform) ...

Accession Number E02995
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Bray Proyart Area, Chuignolles
Date made 23 August 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Lieutenant Colonel D. T. Moore CMG DSO, Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion, AIF (on the platform) and Lieutenant C. O. Clark MC MM, Battalion Intelligence Officer (beside the broken barrel) of the 15 inch naval gun taken by a Company of the 3rd Battalion in a bayonet attack, at Arcy Wood, near Chuignolles, during the advance of the Australian troops in this vicinity on 23 August 1918. The gun had been wrecked either by accident or designed explosion.

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