61. Somme Valley

1. About my first billet in France ...

2. `In memory of 2/330 Gn? H. J. Manley 1st Bat, N.Z.F.A. killed in action on 2/5/15' [grave]

3. By Mule Gully, June 1915

4. Mule Gully, June 1915

5. My little grey home in the West Rest Camp, Mule Gully, June 1915

6. On Walker's Ridge, July 1915

7. `The Crescent and the Cross' July 1915

8. Typical pigeon house in the Basse Cour, 17 Aug 1915

9. Turkish Well, Gallipoli, Oct 1915

10. `An Evening Kiss' Oct 1915

11. `Jeffersons Post' 1 Nov 1915

12. The Bacchant tolls the knell of parting day, Nov 1915

13. Finis, 20 Dec 1915

14. Another billet, 6th MG Coy., 10 July 1915

15. The Barrage, Pozieres, Aug 1916

16. Albert, Aug 1916

17. Bailleul, France, Sept 1915 [the clock tower]

18. Belgium - the first time we held Ypres, 1916

19. Alexandria, 26/12/16

20. Bailleul, 18 March 1917

21. The Somme near Querrieu, 1917

22. Near Querrieu - mules watering

23. Out of the line, May 1918

24. On the Somme, an upland village, May 18

25. The Hortillonages or vegetable gardens , one of the features of Amiens ... May 1918

26. The birdcage, after Ville sur Ancre, May 1918

27. Prisoners taken in front of Morlancourt, Somme, May 1918

28. In support, a great day for us, our neighbour kills a pig, May 1918

29. Bodie shell bursting on Amiens, 18 /6/18

30. Querrieu, Jun 18

31. 11th gun captured by Australians near Warfusee, July 1918

32. Freid Krupp 135 captured by 45th Batn. A.I.F., 8th Aug 1918

33. Tanks, Warfusee, Aug 1918

34. Ypres, remains of Cathedral, 1918

35. Cappy, taken by 2nd Div. en route Peronne

36a-b. Amiens May

37. Amiens from the Albert Road

38. Bonnay

39. Intelligence summary - `The Ancre Valley was subjected yesterday to heavy enemy shelling'

40. Amiens in his grasp. What the Boche saw when he had taken Villers Bretonneux & met the Australians

41. Caught

42. Australian aeroplanes practising firing down a road ... Amiens

43. Allonville

44. Amiens, Old Belfrey

45. Amiens under shell fire

46. Amiens

47. The road to Amiens ...

48. Memorial to fallen soldiers of 1870-71 outside Bapaume

49. Memorial to fallen soldiers of 1870-71 outside Bapaume

50. Bray

51. Cappy

52. Return of a patrol, Corbie

53. Feuilloy

54. The Somme ...

55. The end of the village, Lamotte Brebieres

56. Lamotte Brebiere

57. Lamotte Brebiere

58. Lamotte Brebiere

59. On the Somme, the Basse Coute

60. On the Somme, a valley village

62. Somme Valley

63. The Somme above Amiens

64. Somme clover

65. In the trenches, Walker's Ridge

66. In rest 2nd AMG Batn.

67. In rest 2nd AMG Batn.

68. In our village

69. Shelled out

70. Untitled view of bay and sunset

Records of the European War Collecting Project, established by the Trustees of the Mitchell Library in 1918

1. About my first billet in France ...
2. `In memory of 2/330 Gn? H. J. Manley 1st Bat, N.Z.F.A. killed in action on 2/5/15' [grave]
3. By Mule Gully, June 1915
4. Mule Gully, June 1915
5. My little grey home in the West Rest Camp, Mule Gully, June 1915
6. On Walker's Ridge, July 1915
7. `The Crescent and the Cross' July 1915
8. Typical pigeon house in the Basse Cour, 17 Aug 1915
9. ... Turkish Well, Gallipoli, Oct 1915
10. `An Evening Kiss' Oct 1915
11. `Jeffersons Post' 1 Nov 1915
12. The Bacchant tolls the knell of parting day, Nov 1915
13. Finis, 20 Dec 1915
14. Another billet, 6th MG Coy., 10 July 1915
15. The Barrage, Pozieres, Aug 1916
16. Albert, Aug 1916 
17. Bailleul, France, Sept 1915 [the clock tower]
18. Belgium - the first time we held Ypres, 1916
19. Alexandria, 26/12/16
20. Bailleul, 18 March 1917
21. The Somme near Querrieu, 1917
22. Near Querrieu - mules watering
23. Out of the line, May 1918
24. On the Somme, an upland village, May 18
25. The Hortillonages or vegetable gardens , one of the features of Amiens ... May 1918
26. The birdcage, after Ville sur Ancre, May 1918
27. Prisoners taken in front of Morlancourt, Somme, May 1918
28. In support, a great day for us, our neighbour kills a pig, May 1918
29. Bodie shell bursting on Amiens, 18 /6/18
30. Querrieu, Jun 18
31. 11th gun captured by Australians near Warfusee, July 1918
32. Freid Krupp 135 captured by 45th Batn. A.I.F., 8th Aug 1918
33. Tanks, Warfusee, Aug 1918
34. Ypres, remains of Cathedral, 1918
35. Cappy, taken by 2nd Div. en route Peronne
36a-b. Amiens May 
37. Amiens from the Albert Road
38. Bonnay
39. Intelligence summary - `The Ancre Valley was subjected yesterday to heavy enemy shelling'
40. Amiens in his grasp. What the Boche saw when he had taken Villers Bretonneux & met the Australians
41. Caught
42. Australian aeroplanes practising firing down a road ... Amiens
43. Allonville
44. Amiens, Old Belfrey
45. Amiens under shell fire
46. Amiens
47. The road to Amiens ...
48-49. Memorial to fallen soldiers of 1870-71 outside Bapaume ... - Town Hall, Bapaume
50. Bray
51. Cappy
52. Return of a patrol, Corbie
53. Feuilloy
54. The Somme ...
55. The end of the village, Lamotte Brebieres
56-58. Lamotte Brebiere
59. On the Somme, the Basse Coute
60. On the Somme, a valley village
61-62. ... Somme Valley
63. The Somme above Amiens
64. Somme clover
65. In the trenches, Walker's Ridge
66-67. In rest 2nd AMG Batn.
68. In our village
69. Shelled out
70. [untitled view of bay and sunset]

Life Interrupted: Personal Diaries from World War I

[World War I sketches] / drawn by Leslie Hore

61. Somme Valley

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