Landships II

Poilu · Sergeant

Australian colour images

Excelsior1 · Major

Fantastic. Made me want more. Any references as to where they were taken? Seeing it in colour makes it more alive.

James H · Legend

Google "Frank Hurley." He took colour photos at Gallipoli and on the W Front.

MTorrent · Lieutenant-Colonel

That tank is very interesting. It's amazing how bad it looks only a year after the battle where it was destroyed. But still we can see some original camo.�

From AWM:

"The derelict hulk of a British tank on the Pozieres battlefield. This Mark I Male tank, C1, (Champagne), belonged to C Company, Heavy Machine Gun Corps, later to become the Tank Corps. It was one of seven tanks assigned to the Canadian 2nd and 3rd Divisions for their attack on Courcelette, and German positions to the south and east of the village on 15 September 1916."�

MK1 Nut · Hero

Really nice photos, I will be hunting for more. Had a quick play with them and it's amazing how much colour detail is still there hiding in those photos.

Someone with a proper editing program really should give his photos the once over.

Here's my efforts....

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Rob · Legend

I don't think Frank Hurley could have taken any photos at Gallipoli, at least during the campaign there - he was stuck in Antarctica with the Shackleton 'Terra Nova' expedition until some time in 1916

James H · Legend

Ah. That is an excellent point. Assuming we can rule out a very powerful telephoto lens, I think I'm getting mixed up with Palestine/Sinai. FH and George Hubert Wilkins did take snaps there and on the WF. But I'm sure I've seen some colour pics of Gallipoli. Might be wrong.

Rectalgia · Legend

There are a few "coloured" Gallipoli shots in the AWM collection (including one in the Courier-Mail gallery from the link in the original post) but I think either after the war or hand-coloured. Here are some more:

http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/P01130.001
http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/P03631.228
http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/P01732.001

Incidentally, those photos posted above, printed by the Courier-Mail, can be looked up through the AWM website for whatever details there are on record (dates, locations, circumstance, photographer, etc.) - see https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/photographs/ etc. Note the AWM has a copy service and the quality of those supplied to the Courier-Mail for publication is far superior to the versions available free online. Looking at the prices, they would want to be!