Image:FrankHurleyCamouflagedAustralian18pounder.jpg

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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.
Source

Australian War Memorial ID Number: E01208
Date

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

Frank Hurley
Permission
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