Summary
Alternative Name(s): Triptych
Three photographs of battlefields in Pozieres, France and Ypres, Belgium, during World War I.
Description of Content
Triptych of black and white photographs. The left image shows a heavily-damaged battlefield with stripped trees, a water-filled crater and damaged buildings in background; the centre photograph shows soldiers walking away on a road through a remnant avenue of trees, with dead horses in the foreground; and the right photograph shows a shell bursting on a heavily-damaged battlefield.
Physical Description
Three sepia photographs each mounted on individual card and all mounted on grey backing board.
More Information
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Victorian Branch, Returned & Services League of Australia Limited (RSL), circa 1986
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Place & Date Depicted
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Place & Date Depicted
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Format
Photograph, Monochrome
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Inscriptions
Text: THIS WAS A VILLAGE/IN POZIERES/A SCENE ON A ROAD/NEAR YPRES/SHELL BURSTING AND/THE RUINS OF YPRES.
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Classification
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Type of item
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Framed
805 mm (Width), 360 mm (Height)
Overall dimensions of the original frame
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Image Dimensions - Photograph
183 mm (Width), 140 mm (Height)
Dimensions of photograph only
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Image Dimensions - Photograph
760 mm (Width), 320 mm (Height)
Overall dimensions of the mount board containing three photographs
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Keywords
Wars & Conflicts, World War I, 1914-1918, Soldiers, Bombsights, Battles, Battle of the Somme (Somme Offensive), 1916
