The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A Chinese labourer attached to the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, resting with his pack, near Contalmaison, during the British retirement before the big German offensive, which commenced on 21 March 1918.
Near Contalmaison, France. 24 March 1918. Two members of a Chinese Labour Company carrying their equipment near Contalmaison, during the British retirement. One carries his gear slung on a pole over h
The German offensive, 1918. Men of the 180th British (Tunnelling) Company, Royal Engineers (who, like many others, had fought as infantry in Carey's Force during the March retreat), digging trenches a
The German offensive began on 21 March 1918, its full weight falling upon the extended British line near its junction with that of the French. This was far south of the sector held by the Australian C
Concrete emplacements built by the enemy for his big guns in a wood near Grevillers and destroyed during the big German retirement in February and March 1917, to prevent them falling into our hands.
Unidentified soldiers in a support line trench near Cologne Farm, from which a fine 'indirect' machine gun barrage was put up by the Americans during the fighting on 29 September 1918. Quennemont Farm
Tents and huts of a Casualty Clearing Station near Vauvillers, which fell into enemy hands in the German offensive in March, and was retaken by the Australian troops during the British counter offensi
