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A fatigue party of three unidentified soldiers carrying duckboards along a duckboard pathway ...
Photograph
Maker: Gornall, William Arthur
A fatigue party of three unidentified soldiers carrying duckboards along a duckboard pathway Molenhoek - Becelaere - Ypres.A00007
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Aisne area, France. An unidentified Lieutenant standing at the entrance to an Allied trench that ...
Photograph
Maker: Underwood and Underwood
Aisne area, France. An unidentified Lieutenant standing at the entrance to an Allied trench that has been camouflaged with a `roof' of chicken wire which has sprigs of pine and hemlock attached to it....P02693.021
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Aisne area, France. An unidentified Lieutenant standing at the entrance to an Allied trench that ...
Photograph
Maker: Underwood and Underwood
Aisne area, France. An unidentified Lieutenant standing at the entrance to an Allied trench that has been camouflaged with a `roof' of chicken wire which has sprigs of pine and hemlock attached to it....P02693.007
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A Lewis gun team on a duckboard track near Lake Farm, in the Ypres Sector. The soldiers are ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A Lewis gun team on a duckboard track near Lake Farm, in the Ypres Sector. The soldiers are unidentified.E01087
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A light railway train loaded with duckboards to be used in the advanced route proceeding along ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A light railway train loaded with duckboards to be used in the advanced route proceeding along the Menin Road track, in the Ypres Sector.E00816
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A line of Australian soldiers making their way along a duckboard track behind Delville Wood.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A line of Australian soldiers making their way along a duckboard track behind Delville Wood.E00138
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An artillery horse used for transporting ammunition to the guns and its unidentified Australian ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An artillery horse used for transporting ammunition to the guns and its unidentified Australian driver on a duckboard track between Mametz and Montauban.E00002
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"At Ypres". This inscription was recorded on the back of the original photograph by the ...
Photograph
Maker: Nenke, Robert Willie
"At Ypres". This inscription was recorded on the back of the original photograph by the photographer. The names of the two soldiers on the duckboard walkway, probably from the 46th Battalion, is unkno...P07670.020
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Australian troops making their way along duckboard tracks near the Nissen Hut encampment behind ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Australian troops making their way along duckboard tracks near the Nissen Hut encampment behind Delville Wood.E00139
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A view from the duckboards, near the 'Cough Drop', in front of High Wood, looking east, showing ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A view from the duckboards, near the 'Cough Drop', in front of High Wood, looking east, showing German shells bursting behind the former Australian positions, near Flers.E00209
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Buildings used by the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, near Steenwerck. Note the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Buildings used by the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, near Steenwerck. Note the duckboard walkways used to avoid the mud.P00156.075
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Casualty
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts an Australian soldier holding the dead body of a fellow soldier in a barren, war damaged landscape, in the foreground. Behind him are other soldiers and a cloud filled sky. Frank Crozier (1883...ART02170
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CHERMSIDE, QLD. C. 1941-05. A TRENCH TRAVERSE CONSTRUCTED BY 11TH FIELD COMPANY, RAE (ROYAL ...
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CHERMSIDE, QLD. C. 1941-05. A TRENCH TRAVERSE CONSTRUCTED BY 11TH FIELD COMPANY, RAE (ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS). THE PARAPET IN FRONT IS TURFED TO HIDE NEW WORK FROM GROUND OBSERVATION. THE PARADOS ...P01105.015
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Collection relating to the service of 1512, 1578, VX55289, V7592, V24239 Charles James (Nobby) Clarke MM DCM, 14th Battalion.
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FRANCE, 1916. A PART OF THE AUSTRALIAN FRONT LINE AT GUEUDECOURT, SHOWING SANDBAG REINFORCEMENT, DUCKBOARDS AND TIMBER BRIDGE OVER WATER-FILLED SHELL HOLE.P00308.006
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Collection relating to the service of 1512, 1578, VX55289, V7592, V24239 Charles James (Nobby) Clarke MM DCM, 14th Battalion.
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FRANCE, 1916-17. AUSTRALIAN TRENCHES, SHOWING SANDBAGS, DUCKBOARDS AND DIRECTION SIGNS TO THE FRONT LINE AND SUBSIDIARY LINE.P00308.003
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Collection relating to the service of 1512, 1578, VX55289, V7592, V24239 Charles James (Nobby) Clarke MM DCM, 14th Battalion.
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BAPAUME, FRANCE, 1916. HAVOC CAUSED BY GERMAN GUNS NEAR BAPAUME. SHOWS REMAINS OF WRECKED HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLES, SHELL CASES AND DAMAGED DUCKBOARDS AMONG TIMBER AND RUBBLE.P00308.008
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Coming out at Hill 60
Art
Depicts members of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 4th Division, in full kit walking along duckboard tracks over trenches, in a war damaged landscape. This image was reproduced in 'Australia at War...ART02273
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Craterland
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a wounded man on a stretcher being carried by four German prisoners of war while under armed escort of an Australian soldier. They are walking along a duckboard track past shell holes filled w...ART02925
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Davies, David Thomas (Lance Corporal, b.1887 - d.1941)
Private Record
Maker: Davies, David Thomas
Collection relating to the First World War service of 4335 Lance Corporal David Thomas Davies, France and England, 1916-1919. Collection consists of 18 letters and one postcard written by Davies to th...AWM2016.147.1
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Diary of Keith McKeddie Doig, 1916-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Doig, Keith McKeddie
Diary relating to the First World War service of Major Keith McKeddie Doig, 60th Infantry Battalion, 28 July [1916] - 7 April 1917. In this diary, Doig briefly notes several days at sea immediately ...AWM2018.19.4
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Diary of Mervyn Ernest Hazen, 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Hazen, Mervyn Ernest
Diary relating to the First World War Service of 5341 Private Mervyn Ernest Hazen, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion. This file consists of one bound photocopy of a pocket diary kept by Pte Hazen f...AWM2018.19.2
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Diary transcript of Keith McKeddie Doig, 1916-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Doig, Keith McKeddie
Diary transcript relating to the First World War service of Major Keith McKeddie Doig, 60th Infantry Battalion, 28 July [1916] - 7 April 1917. In this diary transcript, Doig briefly notes several da...AWM2018.19.5
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Diggers going into the line
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Australian AIF soldiers in winter coats trapse in single file through the war damaged landscape of the Somme. Carrying their full personal equipment packs, duck boards and supplies, they survey a dism...ART00227
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Duckboard from Fromelles trenches
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wooden duckboard constructed with iron nails. The boards are nailed across three long sections of wood which may once have been painted in green and brown. There is additional bracing beneath the cros...RELAWM00491
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Duckboards in the tent lines at base headquarters of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian ...
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Duckboards in the tent lines at base headquarters of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), serving with the Australian contingent to the Unified Task Force in Somalia (UNITAF).P01735.208
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Eilanden River, Dutch New Ginea. c. 28 December 1944. Kaja Kaja village huts used as ...
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Eilanden River, Dutch New Ginea. c. 28 December 1944. Kaja Kaja village huts used as accommodation for Australian Intelligence Corps personnel stationed at Post 6. Huts are made of bamboo and sheathed...P02532.002
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Fatigue parties in the moonlight near Flers
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a group of soldiers some carrying kit bags, one carrying some duckboard through a battlefield nears Flers at night. Frank Rossitor Crozier was a painter and illustrator. Born in Maryborough, ...ART00224
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Five Australians, members of a field artillery brigade, passing along a duckboard track over mud ...
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Five Australians, members of a field artillery brigade, passing along a duckboard track over mud and water among gaunt bare tree trunks in the devastated Chateau Wood, a portion of one of the battlegr...E01220
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Flanders, 1917 (verso: two crayon drawings)
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts an atmospheric and war damaged landscapes and the remains of a battlefield on the Western Front. In May 1916 Louis McCubbin enlisted with 14th Battalion AIF. He served in France from 2 Nov 191...ART09450
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France. c. 1918. British Army soldiers passing through a wrecked area as they carry duckboards up ...
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France. c. 1918. British Army soldiers passing through a wrecked area as they carry duckboards up to the forward trenches.H08915
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France. c. 1918. Chinese Labour Corps personnel unloading trench duckboards from railway trucks.
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France. c. 1918. Chinese Labour Corps personnel unloading trench duckboards from railway trucks.H09479
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
Art
Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.013
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
Art
Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.004
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
Art
Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.008
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
Art
Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.014
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Gatliff, Charles Edwin (Captain, b.1882 - d.1959)
Private Record
Maker: Gatliff, Charles Edwin
Collection relating to service of Captain Charles Edwin Gatliff, 4 Light Horse Regiment [later 50 & 51 Field Artillery Battery, 13 Field Artillery Brigade], Egypt, France and Belgium. Collection incl...1DRL/0309
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G.O.C. Office 1st D.H.Q.
Art
Depicts the headquarters office of the General Officer Commanding of the 1st Division AIF, set in Buire Wood, part of the Hindenberg out post line. There are several huts and duckboard paths depicted ...ART03402
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Grave of a pal
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a soldier standing beside the simple cross of a friend's grave, in a war damaged landscape. Frank Crozier (1883-1948) worked as a decorator and clerk and attended the National Gallery of Victo...ART00219
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Gray, Harold James
Private Record
Maker: Gray, Harold James
Black and white photocopies of typed extracts from three letters written by 7150 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Harold James Gray who served with the 8th Battalion AIF during 1916 and 1917. The extracts are f...PR05438
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In the Switch Trench near Flers
Art
Depicts an image of part of a switch trench, with duckboards and sandbags, and a soldier wearing a tin helmet in the foreground, near Flers, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war ar...ART02361
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"Iron Gate, looking west down Ultimo Avenue CT [communication trench]. Note the duck boards ...
Photograph
Maker: Harvey, William Wyatt
"Iron Gate, looking west down Ultimo Avenue CT [communication trench]. Note the duck boards leading into the trench round to the right, which leads to Au Chasseur Cabaret & to FL [front line]." 'There...P09534.019
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Jackson, Herbert Kohry (Corporal, b.? - d.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Jackson, Herbert Kohry
Collection relating to the service of 3671 Corporal Herbert Kohry Jackson, 8 Battalion, AIF, Egypt, France, 1916. Collection includes photostat copies of letters written by Corporal Jackson to his fa...1DRL/0378
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LAE, NEW GUINEA. 1944-11-15. BAGS OF FLOUR STACKED IN THE OPEN ON DUCKBOARDS SOME 6" OFF THE ...
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LAE, NEW GUINEA. 1944-11-15. BAGS OF FLOUR STACKED IN THE OPEN ON DUCKBOARDS SOME 6" OFF THE GROUND DURING TESTS CARRIED OUT BY DOCTOR DAVIS OF THE COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ON TH...076905
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Lane, Lionel William (Lieutenant)
Private Record
Maker: Lane, Lionel William
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Lionel William Lane, 53 Battalion, AIF, France, England, 1917. Collection contains a copy of short extracts from Lieutenant Lane's diary , and copies ...1DRL/0407
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Laying the duckboards, France 1917
Art
Maker: Bell, George
Depicts soldiers from a Pioneer unit laying a duckboard track across muddy fields in a war damaged landscape, probably in the Ypres Salient, France in 1917. The soldiers are wearing sandbags around th...ART03592
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Medical orderlies at the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station near Steenwerck moving patients ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Medical orderlies at the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station near Steenwerck moving patients over duckboard walkways (to avoid the muddy ground) using a two-tiered stretcher holder on wheels. Th...P00156.061
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Members of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), serving with the Australian ...
Photograph
Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Members of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), serving with the Australian contingent to the Unified Task Force in Somalia (UNITAF), walking over duckboards in the tent lines at b...P01735.035
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Men and pack mules rounding Idiot Corner, on Westhoek Ridge, in Belgium, moving up to the front ...
Photograph
Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Men and pack mules rounding Idiot Corner, on Westhoek Ridge, in Belgium, moving up to the front line. To follow the duckboard and corduroy track was to be seen silhouetted against the skyline, both fr...E01480
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Near Le Barque, France. Five unidentified Australian Pioneers making a duckboard bridge across ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Near Le Barque, France. Five unidentified Australian Pioneers making a duckboard bridge across the trenches of the 'Maze'.E00210
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Not titled [bow huts]
Art
Maker: Meldrum, J B
A bow hut has exploded sending up a huge blast. Soldiers duck or run for cover around the other bow hut. The huts are covered in snow, while in the foreground a man on horseback, and a horse and sup...ART03192.006
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Not titled [Military camp huts]
Art
Maker: Meldrum, J B
This work shows two rows of military camp huts. They appear to be made of galvanised metal. Some have chimneys billowing smoke. Several figures lounge in doorways and one walks across the duckboard...ART03192.004
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not titled [track and dump looking towards the front line]
Art
Maker: Meldrum, J B
A line of duckboards has been laid down through the middle of a forest. The trees look dead while soldiers move along the track, pushing supplies or carrying rifles. In the distance, detonating bomb...ART03192.009
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Not titled [Workshop and base for trench supplies]
Art
Maker: Meldrum, J B
Australian soldiers, as distinguished by their slouch hats are at work in and around a large workshop. soldiers construct duckboards while there are piles of wood lying around. Horses and cards and ...ART03192.005
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Old duckboards
Art
Maker: Lindsay, Daryl Ernest
Depicts a scene of old duck boards across a snow covered landscape with damaged trees.ART02976
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Old Left Brigade Headquarters near Flers
Art
Depicts a image of a shelter, the old Left Brigade Headquarters, near Flers, France, covered in sandbags, with piles of debris, duckboards and power lines near by. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02378
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Overlooking the Ypres-Comines Canal. Note the duckboard walkways in the fore and backgrounds of ...
Photograph
Maker: Downes, Harry
Overlooking the Ypres-Comines Canal. Note the duckboard walkways in the fore and backgrounds of the photograph. One of a series of images in an album relating to the wartime service of Lieutenant Harr...P10688.041.007
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Pioneers of the 1st Division preparing a duckboard track over the muddy waste near Zonnebeke, the ...
Photograph
Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Pioneers of the 1st Division preparing a duckboard track over the muddy waste near Zonnebeke, the day after the Australian attack on Broodseinde Ridge. Note the two horses in the left foreground.E00837
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Plank track up Westhoek ridge looking from Bellevarde ridge from J7 A33
Art
Maker: Howie, Laurence
Sketch of the duckboards used during the First World War to help movement due to the muddy conditions, especially prevalent in the Ypres Sector.ART93090.026
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"Pull yourself together, man."
Art
Maker: Dunne, Frank
Depicts a drawing of a group of soldiers in a trench. Sergeant: "Pull yourself together, man. You said yourself, that all your glorious ancestors died fighting". Nervous newcomer: "Yair, that's what m...ART12448
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Section of duckboard, No-Man's Land : Messines
Heraldry
Maker: British Army
Section of wooden duckboard consisting of a pair of vertical runners to which have been attached with nails, six horizontal spaced lengths of wooden track. These track pieces are joined by a continual...RELAWM11300
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Shell holes
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a war damaged landscape with trenches, duckboards and shell holes, on the Somme in France during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) had some early art lessons before beginning hi...ART00175
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Shell pack horses, the Somme
Art
A soldier carrying a pack and wearing a tin helmet pulling at the bridle of a shell pack horse to encourage the animal to walk down a pathway and onto the duckboards. Behind the soldier and horse is a...ART16426
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Soldier in trench with periscope, Messines
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts an unidentified Australian soldier in a trench, looking through a periscope at Messines during the First World War. He wears an 'A' for Anzac colour patch and has sandbags instead of puttees a...ART00162
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"St Yves CT [communication trench] at the Post Office looking towards the Front Line (FL) ie ...
Photograph
Maker: Harvey, William Wyatt
"St Yves CT [communication trench] at the Post Office looking towards the Front Line (FL) ie east." 'This is typical of trenches in this area. Note 6' A frames, duck board walk ways and corrugated iro...P09534.015
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Supporting troops of the 1st Australian Division walking on a duckboard track near Hooge, in the ...
Photograph
Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Supporting troops of the 1st Australian Division walking on a duckboard track near Hooge, in the Ypres Sector. They form a silhouettte against the sky as they pass towards the front line to relieve th...E00833
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Switch trench, the Somme
Art
Depicts a soldier standing in a trench on duckboards, in the Somme, with a war damaged landscape in the background. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during th...ART09929
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The ammunition donkey
Art
Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
During the First World War, donkeys were used in the transportation of ammunition to the front. The donkey is often represented as the symbol of stupidity and stubbornness. However, a donkey is notori...ART02656.002
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The duckboard track leading from Melbourne Camp through the snow covered countryside to the front ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
The duckboard track leading from Melbourne Camp through the snow covered countryside to the front line.E00137
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THE DUCKBOARD TRACK OVER THE MUDDY BATTLE FIELD TO NONNE BOSSCHEN.
Photograph
THE DUCKBOARD TRACK OVER THE MUDDY BATTLE FIELD TO NONNE BOSSCHEN.J06401
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The end of the Somme Offensive
Art
Depicts a roadway filed with the heavy guns going out of action along the Pozieres Road, in France, after the end of the Somme offensive. In the foreground is a war damaged landscape, with areas of du...ART02332
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The final objective captured by Lieutenant (Lt) E.H.D. Edgerton DSO MM and party of the 24th ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
The final objective captured by Lieutenant (Lt) E.H.D. Edgerton DSO MM and party of the 24th Battalion, during the attack. Owing to the marshy nature of the country the final objective had to be chose...E02478
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The Last bit of the German trench on the Somme
Art
Depicts a German trench with the remains of debris, shells and duckboards on the Somme. Dyson wrote that this scene was of 'the last bit of the German trench on the Somme, drawn immediately after the ...ART09921
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The "Q. M."
Art
Maker: Stone, Alexander
An illustration depicting a soldier from the 2nd Tunnelling Company being kicked up the rear by the Quarter Master with two fellow soldiers hiding and watching.ART03457
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The runner
Art
This large painting was completed in Scott's studio at St John's Wood, London in 1919 refers to a battle on the Somme in 1918. In the foreground a runner is depicted in muddy terain with soldiers behi...ART03417
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The 26th Battalion returning from the line along the duckboard track between Zonnebeke and ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
The 26th Battalion returning from the line along the duckboard track between Zonnebeke and Westhoek Ridge, in the Ypres sector. The Butte de Polygon can be seen on the right. Identified is 1523 Corpor...E01084
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10th Machine Gun Company Headquarters
Art
Depicts a view into the entrance of the 10th Machine Gun Company Headquarters on the Western Front, with duckboards, barbed wire and debris in front of it, in a war damaged landscape. Dyson wrote that...ART09926
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Trenches
Art
Maker: Wilson, Eric
An intimate sketch of a war trench in France, including sand bags and duckboards. After being awarded a Travelling Art scholarship in 1937, Eric Wilson studied in Europe for several years. In 1939, i...ART28839
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TROIS ARBRES, FRANCE. C.1917. TENTS AND BUILDINGS OF THE 2ND AUSTRALIAN CASUALTY CLEARING STATION ...
Photograph
TROIS ARBRES, FRANCE. C.1917. TENTS AND BUILDINGS OF THE 2ND AUSTRALIAN CASUALTY CLEARING STATION NEAR STEENWERCK. NOTE THE USE OF DUCKBOARD WALKWAYS (TO AVOID THE MUDDY GROUND). THE WHITE BUILDING AT...P00156.062
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TROIS ARBRES, FRANCE. C.1917. TENTS AND BUILDINGS OF THE 2ND AUSTRALIAN CASUALTY CLEARING STATION ...
Photograph
TROIS ARBRES, FRANCE. C.1917. TENTS AND BUILDINGS OF THE 2ND AUSTRALIAN CASUALTY CLEARING STATION NEAR STEENWERCK. NOTE THE USE OF DUCKBOARD WALKWAYS (TO AVOID THE MUDDY GROUND). BESIDE THE MAIN WALKW...P00156.063
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Troops of the 5th Division walking along a winding duckboard, known as Jabber Track, through the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Troops of the 5th Division walking along a winding duckboard, known as Jabber Track, through the waterlogged and sodden valleys in Albania Woods, in the Ypres sector. On this date, the 3rd and 4th Div...E00985
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Turner, William Terry (Sergeant, b.1887 - d.1959)
Private Record
Maker: Turner, William Terry
Collection relating to the service of 3484 Sergeant William Terry Turner, 56 Battalion (and formerly of 45 Battalion), AIF, at sea, Western Front, England, 1917-1919. Collection consists of 116 lette...1DRL/0586
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Two soldiers of the 5th Division crossing a frozen trench by a duckboard bridge whilst in reserve ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Two soldiers of the 5th Division crossing a frozen trench by a duckboard bridge whilst in reserve at Bernafay Terminus. To the right can be seen a sandbagged shelter.E00145
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Unidentified Australian soldiers crossing a frozen trench whilst in reserve at Bernafay terminus.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Unidentified Australian soldiers crossing a frozen trench whilst in reserve at Bernafay terminus.E00146
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Ups and downs of trench life
Art
Maker: Stone, Alexander
An illustration of a soldier having fallen over on duckboards surrounded by mud whilst raining and holding his rifle.ART03467
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Wallet 1 of 1 - Manuscript relating to the history of the 43rd Infantry Battalion by Eustace James Colliver and Brian Harold Richardson, 1919
Digitised Collection
Maker: Colliver, Eustace James Richardson, Brian Harold
Manuscript relating to the history of the 43rd Infantry Battalion by Captain Eustace James Colliver and 949 Lieutenant Brian Harold Richardson, 43rd Infantry Battalion, 1919. Wallet 1 of 1 - Contains...AWM2018.19.47
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Westhoek ridge from J7 B93
Art
Maker: Howie, Laurence
Sketch of Westhoek Ridge in Belgium. Duckboards can be seen in the left of this sketch, and they were heavily relied upon in this area as the muddy conditions made it difficult to walk through without...ART93090.025
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Woolnough, Edgar Oliver (Private)
Private Record
Maker: Woolnough, Edgar Oliver
Two diaries of No. 6371A Private Edgar O.F. Woolnough (initially 20th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion and, from August 1917, 21st Battalion and later possibly 24th Battalion), probably written up after ...PR00977