The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
German prisoners, the leading ten of whom were officers, being escorted by a Mounted Provost Corporal of 3rd Australian Division from the 9th Brigade Headquarters, Vaire Wood in the opening phase of the offensive on 8 August 1918. The tall hatless officer in the centre (marked with an X at his feet) expressed in excellent English, his great admiration at the surprise effect and success of the operation. The party was captured early in the morning in a thick fog in Accroche Wood by units of 9th Brigade. The prisoners are being taken to the prisoners of war (POW) compound at Corbie.
Panorama print No. 146 made for the British Fourth Army, J.19d Central sheet 62D, for units operating in the area. Range of 100 degrees from Cerisy, Hamel Road, including Susan Wood, Kate Wood, Record
English, American and Australian troops lunching in a wood near Corbie the day prior to the attack and capture of the German positions at Hamel and Vaire Wood.
The 58th Battalion moving up to check the German advance on Corbie. At this point, Vaux-sur-Somme, the Somme Canal had to be crossed by ferry boats. On the height in the background is the main road fr
The wounded of the 34th Battalion being brought by captured German prisoners into the Advanced Dressing Station at the Battalion Headquarters in the Quarry, on the Bray Corbie Road, during the attack
ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR BEING SEARCHED BY A PROVOST OF THE 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISIONAL PROVOST COMPANY. THESE PRISONERS WERE CAPTURED BY UNITS OF THE 24TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE DURING OPERATIONS
Unidentified members of the 9th Field Company Engineers, assisted by German prisoners working at the site of the 3rd Australian Division Monument on the Bray-Corbie road. The site overlooks the area
