Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the numereous original illustrations. See 47737-h.htm or 47737-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47737/47737-h/47737-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47737/47737-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/fromaustralianfr00lond Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Superscripted text is enclosed in curly brackets (example: 2{nd}). FROM THE AUSTRALIAN FRONT [Illustration: "Cook." Drawn by Will Dyson.] FROM THE AUSTRALIAN FRONT The Net Profits from Sales will be devoted to Australian Soldiers' Patriotic Fund Cassell and Company, Ltd London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1917 _The Photographs in this book are reproduced from Australian and British official negatives taken by the following official photographers--Capt. F. Hurley, Lieut. E. Brooks, Lieut. H. F. Baldwin, and Lieut. G. H. Wilkins, A.F.C._ [Illustration: Header showing mounted soldier and horse-drawn wagon.] INTRODUCTION At Christmas, two years ago, as a result of the hard work of its Editors and other members of the A.I.F., we were presented with an excellent production in the form of the "Anzac Book." That was our second Christmas at war. We are now approaching our fourth, and let us hope it may be the last one during which we shall find ourselves fighting. Our kind friends have again come forward and presented us with a book, not quite so ambitious as the "Anzac Book" was, but one which we hope will convey to those whom we left behind in Australia, and who we know are thinking of us, some idea of our surroundings on the battle fronts of the Australians; and which carries with it our whole-hearted hopes and good wishes for those at home. With it, I feel I have the privilege of sending my most grateful thanks to all for their past work, and my best of good wishes to every member of the A.I.F. for the future. [Illustration: Signature] FRANCE, _28th September, 1917_. [Illustration: Footer showing soldiers walking] [Illustration: "What! Last another five years?"] [Illustration: The Leader: A Winter Snapshot of General Birdwood and his Chief of Staff.] [Illustration: The Abbey de Bertin, St. Omer.] [Illustration: Winter in France. The Jock: "Weel, Anzac, and what are ye going to do when the war's ower?" Frozen Bill: "Me? I'm goin' to the centre of Australia for two bloomin' years to thaw out."] [Illustration: The Arrival in Flanders.] [Illustration: One of the Earliest Battalions to enter the Trenches in France.] [Illustration: One of the Early Billets: A Bomb School in Flanders.] [Illustration: Snapped in a Farm in Flanders.] [Illustration: The Headquarters Cook-house in the Peaceful Line.]