Anzac Day Exhibition
Images from the Maurice Hurry Photographic Collection from World War I were exhibited for the first time in the Leeper building foyer and also the Leeper Library, along with other memorabilia including letters and mementos.
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42nd Battalion passing through Houplines after a day's work in the frozen front line trenches, December 1916 |
Scene on the Menin Road beyond Ypres showing troops, dead horses and wreckage moving to forward area, 14 September 1917 |
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Members of the 42nd Battalion at Armentieres, just returning from the front line washing the mud off their gumboots, January 1917 |
"D" Coy of the 4th Battalion during a halt on the way to take the front line at Vauvillers, 11 August 1918 |
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A large crater in Ypres, 75 yards in circumference, 3 September 1917 |
Through Armentieres to the front line, 19 February 1918 |