Image: IWM (Q 728) General Beauvoir De Lisle, GOC 29th Division, in conversation with another General; Mailly-Maillet, 29 June 1916. The British had great success with little bush wars and Colonial scraps during the previous twenty years, but nothing prepared them for an enemy that could hit them in the commercial running of their Empire. The Germans began to fray the million little trade agreements, but it was America, in World War II, that finished it. Roosevelt cut the Empire apart not because of any moral, or high ideal, but simply to open doors for American business.
Portrait of unidentified member of the 4th Division wearing a gas respirator bag around his neck. Interesting thing about the Australians: they sent five divisions to France during the Great War or about 300,000 men. However, the Australians voted against a draft in October 1916 and again in December 1917. As men in those divisions were eliminated, the men were not replaced and those divisions became hors de combat.
Villa Trento hospital staff in the Spring of 1916. From left to right: (standing) L Underwood, D Carey, H Smeets, D Ewbank, M Haines, E Spackman, K Kennedy, E Gibson, L Struthers, R Bonar, C Payton, Sybil Reeves, D Wroughton; (seated) Sister Maskell, Sister Price, Sister Murray, E Partridge, E Ewbank; (front) R Sessions, J Hislop, E Seabrooke.