The 2nd Australian Siege Battery (55th Australian Siege Artillery Battery) working on a 9.2 inch...

Australian Official Photograph / Listed for duping on list DS99-90, 30/11/1999. Hurley: "Suitable weather prompted me to again visit our 54th Battery of 8 in howitzers, which lies in front of lock 8, between Zillebeck & Vormezelle." "Later in the evening I went down to our 55 Battery & was just in time to witness one of our guns shooting on a concrete dugout far away somewhere on the German line. Our batteries of course are hidden by "camouflage", 15 September 1917 FH diary ML MSS 389 Ministers caption: 'Gunners of the 2nd Australian Siege Battery working a 9.2-inch howitzer during an attack at Voormezeele, Belgium. Evening of September 15th 1917.' The camouflage screen overhead conceals the position from enemy aircraft. Left to right: 168 Sergeant George Henry Buffery, (killed in action 4 October 1917); 2873 Corporal Thomas Mowatt (back), (killed in action 1 October 1917); 28118 Gunner (Gnr) John Philip Morgan, (died of wounds 4 October 1917); Willis (back), (killed in action); 653 Gnr Frank Henry Dangar, (killed in action 4 October 1917) of Alf Morrison; Gnr E A Scoles (back); Gnr J Monk (foreground); Gnr J H Hislop or Gnr Dangar