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the picture says it all...I wonder how many of these momento's he actually got home..

That's Private John "Barney" Hines:

cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/E00822

the last times I've seen you on the max show .... lol

You can read a little more about Private Hines in the online version of an exhibiton we did a few years ago called Fifty Australians. He became quite famous because of this photo, which was first published in late 1917.

Liz (admin at the Australian War Memorial)

Thanks, Liz from AWM. That's a good piece about Mr. Hines which you have linked.

Quiero comentar como mexicano y patriota, que en esta imagen las personas que aparecen en ella... No son insurectos ni nada por el estilo, son mexicanos que lucharon por la libertad de su raza y de sus ideales, los cuales siempre fueron contra la marginacion y el desprecio de los mismos mexicanos, por unos cuanto extranjeros ricos acaparadores, los cuales apoyados por unos cuanto malos, mexicanos querian tener sumido en el hoyo de la pobresa y la ignorancia al pueblo mexicano... Por lo tanto son mexicanos valientes y valiosos, y es inadmicible que estas fotografias esten en manos extranjeras y no en los museos o en poder de mexicanos.

strange that these photos taken in Mexico have "south america" as a tag, when Mexico is part of North America. Shouldn't this be corrected?

Besides this picture is close by call number to www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.09390/ the man marked with an x as white recruit seems most likely to be the second (from left to right) in this picture; and the first one could be the man standing backwards in that picure. Would it be possible?

jerodamor: An interesting possiblity, but I can't say there is enough certainty to make a change to the record. Thanks for the observation!

Mike Slichenmyer: Good point about the tag! We leave the ability to tag open to all Flickr users, and do find there are sometimes edits needed. There are several photos of Mexico which appear to have been incorrectly tagged as South America, so I'll see about having those corrected. Thanks for your comment!

The cartridge (not bullet) on the left is the .303 British. The cartridge was used by British forces in rifles and machine guns from 1888 until it was supplanted by the 7.62 NATO cartridge in the 1950s. Also, the spelling of the German should be Panzerbuechse. (The "u" should have an umlaut, but "ue" is a correct substitute.) I don't seem to be able to create an umlaut in Flickr.

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