Sandbagged dugout occupied by members of a howitzer battery
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Unknown. No geospatial location data available.
Date: Ca. 1917.
Description: The image is a candid photo of three servicemen in uniform in a muddy sandbagged dugout. One is smoking, the other bent over undercover, the other holding material such as a blanket.
Number 6 in the 'Our Boys at the Front' postcard series. From official photographs by special permission of the Department of Defence. Proceeds to the Australian Comforts Fund. (Printing on verso of postcard)
A series of official war photographs of Australian service personnel in France and Belgium, which the Australian Comforts Fund turned into postcard to sell for fund raising purposes.
Learn more about this image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/2370
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland
Sandbagged dugout occupied by members of a howitzer battery
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Unknown. No geospatial location data available.
Date: Ca. 1917.
Description: The image is a candid photo of three servicemen in uniform in a muddy sandbagged dugout. One is smoking, the other bent over undercover, the other holding material such as a blanket.
Number 6 in the 'Our Boys at the Front' postcard series. From official photographs by special permission of the Department of Defence. Proceeds to the Australian Comforts Fund. (Printing on verso of postcard)
A series of official war photographs of Australian service personnel in France and Belgium, which the Australian Comforts Fund turned into postcard to sell for fund raising purposes.
Learn more about this image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/2370
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland