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61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

Lieutenant Abner Gladstone Virtue - 61st Fld Bty

 

Gunner Bertram Cox

 

E3764
A curious ruin in Le Catelet
Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office: W.L. Crowther Library
Born in Hobart in 1887 William Edward Lodewyck Hamilton Crowther was a proud fourth-generation Tasmanian. Like his great grandfather,
grandfather and father he was a medical practitioner. During World War 1, he served with distinction at Gallipoli and on the Western
Front. 
His personal papers, donated to the State Library of Tasmania in 1964, include extensive material relating to his war service
including diaries, photographs, maps, orders, and despatches.

 

© IWM (E(AUS) 3915)
An Australian official photographer, believed to be Capt G H Wilkins (later Sir Hubert Wilkins, the polar explorer) and his assistant
sets up his camera and tripod on a tank near Ronssoy on the Western Front.

 

© IWM (Q 9568)
A wrecked cemetery near Gavrelle, 5 October 1918. The town, evacuated by the Germans and occupied by the 51st Division on 27 August,
was taken over by 8th Division immediately afterwards.

 

© IWM (Q 9569)
A wrecked cemetery near Gavrelle, 5 October 1918. The town, evacuated by the Germans and occupied by the 51st Division on 27 August,
was taken over by 8th Division immediately afterwards.

 

© IWM (Q 58357)
A captured German pillbox near Lens, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 58387)
Ruins of La Rue Carnot in Armentieres, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 58388)
The ruined cathedral at Armentieres, mined by the retreating Germans, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 60810)
Ruins of the Mayor's house at Armentieres which was mined by the retreating Germans, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 65990)
American officers checking a M1917 Browning machine gun at the 304th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop at Thillombois, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 70559)
Second Lieutenant Val Browning firing a 1917 Browning machine gun invented by his father, John Browning, at Thillombois, 5 October
1918.

 

© IWM (Q 70709)
Motor convoy of American, British and Australian trucks (Leyland) bringing ammunition up to the front at Bellicourt, crossing the
Hindenburg Line, which was broken by American and Australian troops on 29 September 1918. The photograph shows congestion on the road
between Hargicourt, Aisne and Bellicourt, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78762)
Damaged houses in the Rue Denis Papin in Armentieres, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78764)
Damaged houses in the Rue Nationale in Armentieres, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78765)
Ruins of the church in Armentieres which was mined by the retreating Germans, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78766)
The waters of the River Lys invading Armentieres after the flood brought about by the retreating Germans, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78767)
Destroyed bridge over the River Lys in Armentieres, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78768)
The waters of the River Lys invading Armentieres after the flood brought about by the retreating Germans, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78769)
Mine craters at the entrance to Lens, approaching from Lievin, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78771)
Ruins of the Town Square in Lens, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78772)
German trenches in the ruins of the Town Square (or Place Verte) in Lens, 5 October 1918. View taken in the direction of the centre of
the town.

 

© IWM (Q 78773)
General view of ruined Lens taken from the church, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78774)
Ruins of the church at Lens, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78775)
A 150 mm artillery shell bursting in the air near Lens, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78776)
A 150 mm artillery shell bursting amongst the ruins of Lens, 5 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78996)
The ruins of the town of Lens, 5 October 1918.

 

MIKAN 161007
Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force [graphic material].
Photograph donated by Harvey J.M. Champagne, son-in-law of Joseph Thomas Adolphe Arsenault who was one of the soldiers in the
photograph.
Item is a photograph of "A" Company, 260th Battalion, Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force, Major D.S. Bauld, Commanding Officer.
Saint John, N.B. Photo by the Reid Studio.
Born in St-Alexis, Bonaventure County, Quebec on 20 October 1895, Joseph Thomas Adolph Arsenault enlisted in the 1st Depot Battalion,
New Brunswick Regiment on 10 January 1918, at the age of 22. He served as a lance-corporal in the I.D.B.N.B.R from January to
September 1918 and in the 260th Canadian Infantry Battalion from September 1918 to May 1919, with service in Siberia. He was
discharged in St. John, New Brunswick on 30 May 1919.