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			Creator		Harris, Herschel
			Title		Dr. Herschel Harris war photographs in France and Lemnos
			Level of Description		Series
			Date of Work		1914-1915
			Type of Material		Graphic Materials
			Call Number		PXA 403
			Issue Copy		Digitised :
			Physical Description		Photographs : 65 silver gelatin photoprints ; 8.5 x 8 cm.-8 x 14 cm.
			Contents		1. France - group taken at St Brevin ... with head downcast is Col. Horne of Melbourne 2. Dr. Thring operating on a case at Wimereux (Australian Voluntary Hospital, A.V.H.) during the first battle of Ypres, 1914 3-6. Wimereux A.V.H. 1914 - group portraits including - Sir George Makins, Col. Bonighard, Col. Eames, Sir Alex MacCormick, D. Thring, Dr. Herschel Harris, Lt. Col. Horne (Melbourne), Major Dick (Newcastle), Canon Adderley (Birmingham), Sir Almroth Wright, Dr. Burghard (England), Mrs Popplewell (Hon. Sec.), Capt. Touse V.C., Bishop Golding-Bird 7-8. Wimereux A.V.H. 1915 - British Red Cross Nurses 9. Wimereux A.V.H. - group of Sisters R-L: Sisters Baxter, Anderson, Dowling, all of Sydney 10. Wimereux A.V.H. - group of Officers and Sisters who belonged to the Sydney Hospital L-R: Dr. Chisholm, Dr. Herschel Harris, Dr. Murray Will, Dr. Randal McDonnell, Sister Dalgleish, Sister Dalziel 11. Wimereux A.V.H. - L-R: Sister Gabriel, Sister Reay 12. Boulogne, 1915 - ... a motor is seen `stuck-up' 13. June 1915 King Rufus' Stone, New Forest - Sir Alex MacCormick, Lady MacCormick, Mr Cropper, Miss MacCormick 14. Malta, July 1915 - Natives selling fruit, etc. to troops aboard the `Simla' 15. Mudros Harbour, Lemnos, June 1915 - The `Simla' has just arrived and the reinforcements aboard 16. Lemnos July 1915 - reinforcements being transhipped from the `Simla', since torpedoed, to mine sweeper to be conveyed direct to ANZAC 17-18. Off to ANZAC Oct 1915 - Sweeper just clearing Lemnos Island, group of Ghurkas 19. Mudros Harbour 1915 - group of officers taken on the `Transilvania'. These officers were transferred from the `Southland' after she had been torpedoed outside Lemnos. L-R: unknown officer, Col. Millard, General Legge, Sir Alex MacCormick, Queensland officer? 20-21. ANZAC Oct 1915 - North Beach showing Williams and Walker's Piers ... 22. ANZAC Oct 1915 - North Beach, note boxes of ammunition. Hospital ship is seen at anchor ... 23. ANZAC Oct 1915 - North Beach, the Hospital Ship is at her usual mooring ... 24. ANZAC Oct 1915 - looking towards Suvla Bay 25-26. ANZAC Oct 1915 - view of `Russell's Top' 27. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Fisherman's Gully 28. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Fisherman's Gully, Indians belonging to Mule Corp 29-30. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Mule Gully 31-32. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Charnuk Dere 33. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Charnuk Dere ... ANZAC writing a letter in his tent 34-36. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Charnuk Dere, Dressing Station ... [includes] Dr. Fiaschi and Dr. Herschel Harris 37-38. ANZAC Oct 1915 - near Charnuk Dere [includes] Mule Transport Corps 39-41. ANZAC Oct/Nov 1915 - Rhodadendron Hills ... 42-44. ANZAC Oct 1915 - The `Sphinx' or `Cathedral' ... occupied by No. 1 Clearing Hospital 45. Lemnos Nov 1915 ... tents are those of in `Sarpi' the Australian Rest Camp ... 46. ANZAC Oct 1915 No. 1 Outpost, in charge of General Meredith (Raymond Terrace) 47. ANZAC Oct 1915 - G.P.O. Base Post Office, note the Postmaster sorting the mail ... 48. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Sniper in the front line 49. ANZAC Oct 1915 - near the front line of trenches, snipers at work 50. ANZAC Oct 1915 - the third line of the trenches. At this spot these trenches were unoccupied during the day and occupied during the night 51. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Major Fiaschi inspecting a trench ... 52. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Dr. Fiaschi ... in a sap 53. ANZAC Oct 1915 - A sap, note overhead bridge 54. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Dr. Mainwaring's dug out L-R: Dr. Herschel Harris, Dr. Cudmore (Adelaide) and Dr. Mainwaring (Adelaide) 55. ANZAC - dug out occupied by Major Mainwaring used as a Dressing Station, Oct 1915 56. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Well used for drinking purposes. Note: the guard ... the Turks had a habit of picking out these spots 57. ANZAC Oct 1915 - `Luncheon Hour' 58. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Indian belonging to Mule Corps sitting in front of his dug out 59. ANZAC Oct 1915 - Indian playing a tune on a `periscope' which has been transformed into a harp 60. ANZAC Nov 1915, Mule Transport Corps 61. Lemnos 1915, Route march, Australian soldiers 62. Lemnos Island 1915, Field bakery, Mudros Harbour is seen in the distance 63. ANZAC Nov 1915, Showing Table-Top, Little Table-Top & Camel's Hump 64. Lemnos Island. Windmill in action, numbers of these existed throughout the Island. They were used for grinding the grain, 1915 65. Lemnos 1915, group of mills not in action, Sir Alexander MacCormick in foreground
			Source		Unknown


			Copying Conditions		Out of copyright - Created before 1955
			General Note		A bibliography of servicemen's and women's diaries of World War I is held in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at PXn 878
			Name		Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921) World War (1914-1918)
			Topic		ammunition armies army camps bakeries cars doctors (medical) dressing stations Ghurkas hospital ships hospitals Indians monuments & memorials mules musical instruments nurses post offices trench warfare troopships wars wells windmills
			Place		France Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) Lemnos Island (Greece) Malta
			Persons		Adult Females Adult Males
			Digital order no.		Album ID : 888093