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Faces of Duty: Australian Troops Captured in Vintage Frames _au1
Australian soldiers from the state of Victoria march down Bourke Street in Melbourne, prior to departing for the battlefields of World War I, circa 1914. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Getty Images)
Soldiers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa, First World War, 1914-1918, (circa 1920). ‘The Gathering of the Clans: a Typical Group of Colonial Troops’. From “The Great World War – A History” Volume I, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, circa 1920]. Artist Underwood & Underwood. (Photo by The Print Collector via Getty Images)January 1916: Australian troops in Britain wearing the ‘wattle’, a type of acacia and the national emblem of Australia. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)An Australian soldier lies wounded in the foreground, as hundreds of other soldiers move among the dead and wounded on the beach at Anzac Cove on the day of the landing. Many of the soldiers are wearing red cross arm bands and are tending to the wounded. Boxes of equipment are stacked among the men and the beach is also littered with discarded personal equipment. This scene is looking along the beach to the north, 25 April 1915. (Photo by Philip Schuller/The AGE/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images)An Australian soldier carries a wounded comrade to a hospital during the Dardanelles Campaign, 1915. US War Department photo. (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images)Private Burke signs his autograph for a Voluntary Aid nurse at Rose Hall, a convalescent home in Darlinghurst, Sydney, circa 1917. Private Burke is one of several wounded soldiers staying at Rose Hall whilst waiting to be returned home to Queensland during World War I. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Getty Images)Australians cheer King George V, France, World War I, 1916. The King (1865-1936) was visiting the troops during the Battle of the Somme. Artist Unknown. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)August 1918: Australian troops from Fiji being inspected by Sir Everard-in-Thurm. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)Lord Kitchener reviewing Australian cadets, First World War, circa 1914, (circa 1920). ‘More of the “Lion’s Whelps”‘, (‘sons of the British Empire’). British soldier and statesman Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) served as War Minister from 1914 until his death in 1916. From “The Great World War – A History” Volume I, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, circa 1920]. Artist Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector via Getty Images)November 1915: Mounted Australian soldiers riding through London during the Lord Mayor’s Procession. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)Australian troops fire a final volley over the grave of Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace pilot know as the Red Baron, Amiens, France, May 22, 1918. He was shot down on the Western Front, and his body fell behind the British lines. He was buried with full military honors. . (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)War and Conflict, World War I, (1914-1918) Western Front, Belgium, German prisoners being marched through devastated Ypres after an attack from South African, Australian and British troops (Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)Australian troops in Turkey, First World War, 1915, (circa 1920). ‘Behind the Firing Line at Anzac Cove: “Splinter Villa”, one of the Australian dug-outs’. From “The Great World War – A History” Volume III, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, circa 1920]. Artist Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector via Getty Images)Soldiers take part in artillery exercises at Liverpool in Sydney, 1916. (Photo by The Sydney Morning Herald/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images)Parade of Australian soldiers at the trenches on the Western Front, following capture of Pozières on 23 July 1916. France. Commonwealth troops. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
