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Description

An 18 pounder gun being hauled through the mud at Broodseinde Ridge to a position further forward, in support of the advancing Australians, two days before the initial attack on Passchendaele Ridge, in the Ypres sector.

Identified, left of the gun, left to right:

Gunner (Gnr) W E Drummond
Gnr J Brannon (to Drummond's right)
Gnr C V Cox (in front of Brannon)
two men unidentified behind Cox
34401 Gnr A Hewitt (in front of Cox)
Dvr A C Sampson (standing on wheel, back to camera)
Gnr G G Dowling (foreground, pulling rope on front wheel)

Right side of gun, left to right:

Dvr Hughes
Dvr F Peace
unidentified
unidentified
Bombardier T (R ?) Garniss
Sergeant W Reynolds (extreme right, standing back).

Comment : Note armoured oil reservoir on end of recuperator.
See First Battle of Passchendaele.

Date

10 October 1917. First exhibited at the Kodak Salon, Sydney, 1919.

Source

This image is available from the Collection Database of the Australian War Memorial under the ID Number:

E01208

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Author

Frank Hurley

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This image is protected by Crown Copyright because it is owned by the Australian Government or that of the states or territories, and is in the public domain because it was created or published prior to 1974 and the copyright has therefore expired. The government of Australia has declared that the expiration of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide. This has been confirmed by correspondence received by the Volunteer Response Team (Ticket:2017062010010417).

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