Accession Number | E04644 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Glass transparency (positive) |
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 This item is in the Public Domain |
Wounded men of the 3rd Australian Division surrounded by the bodies of their dead comrades at the ...
Wounded men of the 3rd Australian Division surrounded by the bodies of their dead comrades at the railway cutting on the Ypres-Roulers line during the battle of Passchendaele , on October 12th, 1917. (This is the original caption)
The Australian soldier on the extreme right has later been identified as 1190 Pte Austin Garnet Henderson, 38th Battalion.
Curatorial note: This is one of three photographs taken of this scene held by the Australian War Memorial. All three were taken with different cameras. E03864 is a half plate glass negative. E04673 is a nitrate stereo negative (60mm x 130mm format) and we hold an image of the right hand side of the stereo pair as E04673A. There are known to be two additional versions of this scene, one with Captain Hurley standing on the right and holding a stereo camera, the camera that most likely took 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.