…every yard of earth had been ploughed up by shells and trenches and the only way to get over this country was along the duckboard tracks… - Major Donald Dunbar Coutts
Western Front, Belgium 22 October 1917
photographer unknown
Reproduced courtesy of the Australian War Memorial E01236
When the bullets cut through the side of the boat you could smell the paint burning - Unnamed Lieutenant, 7th Battalion
Landing at Anzac Cove 25 April 1915
photographer unknown
Reproduced courtesy of the Australian War Memorial A02781
France is a dreadfully cold place - Private Michael Ryan, St Kilda
5th Division men wearing their newly issued sheepskin vests December 1916
France
photographer, Herbert Baldwin
Reproduced courtesy of the Australian War Memorial E00019
At times I look round and see the fearful havoc that war makes, and I ask why? - Sergeant-Major P Brown, Warrnambool
Moving up to the front line 5 November 1917
Western Front, Belgium
photographer unknown
Reproduced courtesy of the Australian War Memorial E01480
… went to Cairo, pyramids and saw the wonder of the Sphinx. Six thousand years old and probably last for another five thousand. - Corporal Edgar Sydney Worrall, 24th Battalion
Camel riders at Sphinx c 1915
Egypt
photographer unknown
Reproduced courtesy of the Australian War Memorial H01960
War work: Miss Coll knits a pair of socks from fleece
Melbourne, Victoria
photographer unknown
Reproduced courtesy of the Australian War Memorial H02438
The Conscription debate divided Australia. ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ campaigns vied to capture the imagination of voters.
Anti Conscription Leaflet 1917
Reproduced courtesy of the Australian War Memorial RC00331