The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Troops of the 1st Division passing through the 15th Infantry Brigade near Harbonnieres, to take over the newly captured front lines on the night before the attack on Lyons and just after a tank had cleared the way for the 15th Brigade to advance past the line of low bushes, seen on the right, in which machine guns of Germans held up the infantry. General Elliot had been wounded by a snipers bullet that morning during the attack. The infantry came in artillery formation but went into extended order just after passing the camera. The bank running to the left is the railway line to Harbonnieres. In the centre, background are tanks returning from attack. Map Ref. (1:40,000) 62d.W24.b.central.
A line of machine gun posts near Harbonnieres which, in the advance of 9 August 1918, caused severe casualties amongst the 15th Australian Infantry Brigade, and held them up for about an hour, until a
Australian troops of the 1st Division advancing in artillery formation to take over the new line from the 15th Australian Infantry Brigade, near Harbonnieres and prepare for the attack to take place o
A Machine Gun Section of the 15th Infantry Brigade at their final objective just behind the front line near Harbonnieres. The men are all unidentified. Note the German sign (foreground) which reads: '
Infantry of the 1st Division moving up in the advance near Harbonnieres, just after a Whippet tank (background) had finally disposed of a line of machine gun emplacements which had held up the infantr
Troops of the 2nd Australian Infantry Battalion on their way from the line, passing an observation balloon near Harbonnieres.
Transport of the 2nd Australian Infantry Brigade on their way to the rest area, passing an observation balloon at its moorings near Harbonnieres.
