Unidentified members of an Australian burial party (background) preparing to inter the bodies of ...

Accession Number E04766
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, Villers-Bretonneux Area, Villers-Bretonneux
Date made 26 April 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

Unidentified members of an Australian burial party (background) preparing to inter the bodies of several German prisoners, two days after the night attack by the 13th and 15th Australian Infantry Brigades which dislodged the German forces from their newly-captured positions in this area (including Villers Bretonneux). The prisoners had been killed the previous morning by a German shell while being escorted to a prisoner of war cage.

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