Australian sergeants attached to an American Machine Gun Company for instructional duties. Before ...

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Accession Number E03392
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Peronne, Ronssoy
Date made 29 September 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

Australian sergeants attached to an American Machine Gun Company for instructional duties. Before the cooperative attack of the American and Australian troops against the Main Hindenburg Line, Australian staff and regimental officers selected from the units of the 1st and 4th Divisions were attached to 2nd American Corps units to show them British methods and procedures employed by the Australians. Every American Company had a senior Australian NCO attached to it.