The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A German gun crew lying dead around their machine gun position, having been killed during the strenuous fighting on the night counter attack of April 24th, by which the 13th and 15th Australian Brigades brilliantly recaptured Villers Bretonneux and retrieved the loss of ground to the enemy in his attack against the tired British Divisions the same morning. Map reference (1:40,000) is approximately: Sheet 62D.,S.W.,0.29a.0-6.
Hill 104, France. 29 April 1918. A view of Hill 104 photographed from Villers-Bretonneux. It was the crest of this hill that the Germans wrested from the exhausted British troops in the early morning
An abandoned German cooker in no man's land between Monument Wood and Villers-Bretonneux. It was left by the enemy when the counter attack by the 13th and 15th Brigades recaptured Villers-Bretonneux o
View of the countryside near the village of Villers-Bretonneux (background). On 24 April 1918 the 13th and 15th Australian Infantry Brigades, attacking on either side of Villers-Bretonneux, recaptur
A group of unidentified Australian soldiers (left) digging near Hill 104. The contour of the hill and the Bois de l'Abbe (Abbey Wood) are visible in the background. Hill 104 was the dominating featu
Villers Bretonneux, France. 31 August 1919. Sheet 62D S.W. taken from map reference 0.36.d.7.8. Looking N.W. The Old Sand Pit.
A German cooker smashed by a shell and abandoned by the enemy, near Monument Wood and Villers-Bretonneux, during the counter attack of the 13th and 15th Brigades at Villers-Bretonneux, on the night of
