The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two men of the 7th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery operate a light trench mortar established in a machine gun post on the new front line. From left to right: 1916 Lance Corporal A. J. Ellis and 2700 Private A. Lawler. This position was part of a few hundred yards captured from the enemy in a silent daylight raid the day previously by a party of the 27th Battalion. The location is just east of Villers-Bretonneux between the railway and the south side of the Amiens-St Quentin main road, alongside a position called 'The Orchard'.
Looking towards Villers-Bretonneux through the remains of the Orchard. This position, together with Monument Wood, 1,800 yards due south, was undoubtedly the most heavily shelled of any position in th
The remnants of German dugouts built into a clay pit, located to the south of the road which ran by the orchard near Villers-Bretonneux. Two days earlier two parties of the 27th Battalion during a da
Unidentified Australian soldiers gathered at the headquarters of the 37th Battalion which was established in a quarry alongside the Amiens Road. Note the shell damaged village, possibly Villers-Breto
Troops of the 27th and 28th Battalions resting by a railway embankment 600 yards south east of Clery-sur-Somme, whilst on their way to positions from which they were to commence an attack on the follo
"A front line trench near Monument Wood, forward of Villers-Bretonneux, after the Germans had been forced to evacuate the position, following a daylight raid by Australian troops" (Official caption).
A party of the 6th Australian Infantry Brigade digging a trench for a buried cable along the Villers Bretonneux-Amiens railway line.
