#war photography
Photographer:Frank Hurley
Year:Unknown
Location:Palestine
Description:Transportation of weapons and war supplies to Australian troops down a road with the view of the Jordan Valley in the background.
Source: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Photographer:Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Year:1915
Location:Kyappesel’ga, Russia
Description:Austro-Hungarian war captives pose with their Russian camp guards for a photograph in front of their wooden barrack at a prisoner of war camp in Kyappesel’ga, Russia. The prisoners are flanked on the left by two Russian soldiers, one of whom is shouldering a rifle, and on the right by a gendarme in a black uniform.
Source:Library of Congress/World Digital Library
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Photographer:Frank Hurley
Year:1918
Location:Belah, Palestine
Description:The campsite of the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade situated amongst the sand hills in Belah, Palestine on February 1918.
Source:Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Photographer:Frank Hurley
Year:1917
Location:Palestine
Description:Fighter planes parked outside the hangar of the 1st Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps in Palestine.
Source:Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Being a bomb hunter requires pin-sharp concentration and tireless attention. The teams start by scanning an area with metal detectors, some of them fitted with ground-penetrating radar. Workers carefully clear brush and vegetation, and listen for the tell-tale beep that indicates a potential bomb. Anything suspicious is fenced off wth red stakes.
Read More: Meet the People Who Hunt for the Hidden Bombs and Landmines of Kosovo
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Confederate Infantry within Jackson’s command photographed in Frederick, Maryland during the Antietam or Maryland Campaign.
12th September, 1862.
The photograph is the property of the Historical Society of Frederick County, Maryland.
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Men of the 1st Auckland Infantry Battalion who were unwounded after the Somme. Some are wearing German uniforms and helmets.
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A group of men from the Royal Regiment of Artillery, photographed alongside a long-barreled field gun, 1916. For the occasion, they have chalked the words, ‘Somme gun’ on the side of the barrel.
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