Item MM 120249 Photograph - Tents in Army Camp, 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.

Description of Content

Photograph of tent camp. In the foreground there is a soldier standing in a barely visible tent opening wearing a jacket and smokeing a cigarette. In the middle portion of the photograph there is three white tents with a network of wooden broadwalks in front. There is another soldier standing on the wooden broadwalk on the left tent. On the right behind the tents there is a cart that looks like a water cart. In the far background there is a tree line or a forest.

Physical Description

Sepia-toned black and white silver gelatin photographic print.