Item MM 120243 Photograph - Ambulances, Somme, France, Sergeant John Lord, World War I, 1917

Summary

One of 185 black and white photographs in an album, taken in France during World War I by Sergeant John Lord. Some pages are blank.

Photographs in the album depict army camps, hospitals, trenches, early tanks, landscapes, cemeteries and graves and groups of posed Australian soldiers. The places Lord mentions in his captions are La Boiselle, Quarry Siding, Pozieres, Albert, Bapaume and Favreuil.

The album was one of many souvenirs brought back to Australia after World War I by John Lord (service # 6252). He donated photograph albums, images, documents and World War I memorabilia to Museum Victoria.

The same scene is photographed in MM 120246

Description of Content

Photograph of ambulances in a field. In the foreground is a field with a large puddle on the right. There is also a mast on the far left of the photograph, this is probably the same mast with a red cross flag that is visible in MM 120246. In the middle of the photograph is four ambulances (a fifth ambulance is barely visible on the far left. All ambulances have red on white medic crosses painted on the side. There is a soldier walking between the first and the second ambulance. On the far left, behind the fourth and the partly visible fifth ambulances there is two tents.

Physical Description

Black and white silver gelatin photographic print.