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 tank has a Russian inscription that was part of the cover up during the development of the tank. The inscription reads 'With care to Petrograd' (present day St Petersbourg).

Description of Content

Broken down tank (possible mkI tank). The writing on the tank is in Russian and reads 'with care to Petrograd'. Debris, spades and two soldiers,one of them wearing a slouch hat, in front of the tank. Next to the tank on the right side there is atleast one grave with two burned out trees in the background. There is a road with coloums marching soldiers behind the tank. note. the double holes in the turrets for machine guns, the tanks equiped with machine guns was referred to as female tanks, and the tanks with 6 pounder guns where refered to as male tanks.

Physical Description

Sepia-toned black and white silver gelatin photographic print.

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