Dead and wounded Australians and Germans in the railway cutting in the Ypres sector, in Belgium, ...

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Accession Number E03864
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Broodseinde
Date made 12 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

Dead and wounded Australians and Germans in the railway cutting in the Ypres sector, in Belgium, during the battle of Passchendaele, on October 12, 1917. (This is the original caption) The Australian soldier on the extreme right has been identified as 1190 Pte Austin Garnet Henderson, 38th Battalion.
Curatorial note: This is one of two original negatives taken of this scene held by the Australian War Memorial. Both were taken with different cameras; E03864 is a half plate glass negative and E04673 is a nitrate stereo negative (60mmx130mm format). We also hold an image of the right hand side of the stereo pair as E04673A. There are known to be at least two additional versions of this scene, one with Captain Hurley standing on the right and holding a stereo camera, the camera that most likely recorded E04673, and one with Lieutenant Wilkins standing in the same spot and holding the same stereo camera. From the visual evidence, the photographs of Hurley and Wilkins are likely to have been taken with a glass plate camera. Although Captain Frank Hurley has previously been identified as the photographer of E03864, this has now been changed to "unknown", as the evidence of which photographer took which of these images is unclear.
The original caption for E04673 identified these men as 3rd Division soldiers.