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Title
Item 04: Australian Official World War I photographs
Call number
PXB 215/47-73
Level of description
series
Date

1917-1918
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
69806
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
Photographs - 27 silver gelatin photoprints - 12 x 20 cm.-17 x 21.5 cm.
Scope and Content
47. Flashlight of ruins of Vermezelle
48. Ruins at Yyres
49. A gigantic shell crater. This was 75 yards in circumference
50. Constructing battle operations during the recent activities
51. A captured German concrete dugout, still intact
52. No Man's Land the day before the battle
53. A typical scene near part of the Menin Road
54. The result of a 5.9.
55. Bringing in the wounded
56. Hun prisoners bringing in Australian wounded
57. Australian troops at tea in the first support trench on eve of battle
58. Watching a bevy of Hun planes over Ypres
59. Supports moving up to the front line
60. Bringing up the ammunition by light railway
61. An Australian battalion marching to the trenches
62. Road scene near Ypres salient
63. Australian troops watching Tommies training the anti-aircraft guns on a Hun aeroplane
64. Captured Boche dugouts and the things they left behind them
65. A Boche residence that is practically shell proof
66. The way to Ypres
67. A `pill-box' in which 15 Huns were captured
68. The type of ground over which the troops advanced
69. An ANZAC battalion resting behind a redoubt
70-71. Panorama. No Man's Land. Advanced troops occupying shell holes
72. A captured munition dump
73. Communications must be kept up at all costs and these men are seen going over the top to run out new lines during the battle of Zonnebeke
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

A bibliography of servicemen's and women's diaries of World War I is held in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at PXn 878
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
Digital order no:Album ID : 1014759
Signatures / Inscriptions

All titled on reverse
Name
Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)
Western Front Campaign (1914-1918)
Subject
Adult Males
Topic
interiors
ammunition
armies
artillery
campaigns & battles
Germans
prisoners of war
railways
ruins
trench warfare
war damage
Place
Belgium
France
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