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(4) C.473 - Australian machine gunners returning from the trenches
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Allies > Australian and New Zealand > (4) C.473 - Australian machine gunners returning from the trenches |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74546748 |
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| Description | Australian machine gunners marching along a road. The two men in front are carrying machine guns over their shoulders. All of the men are carrying equipment and wearing steel helmets. Marching in the opposite direction, there is a line of soldiers with pickaxes. Most of the men are looking at the camera and smiling. The road they are on is dry and dusty, and scattered with objects including an abandoned boot in the foreground. Rolls of barbed wire line the side of the road. At the outbreak of World War I, Australia created an overseas force called the Australian Imperial Force. Initially sent to Egypt for training in 1914, whilst there they joined forces with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to become the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, otherwise known as ANZAC. [Original reads: 'Australian machine gunners returning from the trenches.'] |
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| Description | Photographs of the ANZACS and politicians. |
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| Description | Photographs of various nationalities allied to the British. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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