The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
View from the position of the German machine guns on the ramparts of Peronne. From this pointion a view could be obtained of Mont St Quentin, the slope of which is seen in the right background of the photograph. On the left is the railway embankment, where the 53rd Battalion were dug in during the time that Mont St Quentin was occupied by the enemy, and from which they commenced the attack upon Anvil Wood under heavy flank fire from the Peronne ramparts on their right. In this attack they were compelled to make a wide detour following the railway line in the right of the picture, as the open ground in the centre could be swept with machine gun fire from the enemy on Mont St Quentin and St Denis as well as from the ramparts.
View from the 'jumping off' point of the 53rd Battalion on the railway line towards the ramparts of Peronne. It was from the ramparts that the enemy directed heavy flank fire against the troops of the
The destroyed St. Denis Sugar Factory and Railway line, near Peronne. During the attack on Mont St. Quentin, on 1 September 1918, the 53rd Battalion were for a time entrenched along the embankment of
The countryside around Mont St Quentin and Peronne. In the background is the railway embankment where the 53rd Battalion were dug in immediately prior to their attack in that area on 1 September 1918
The countryside around Mont St Quentin and Peronne. In the background is the railway embankment where the 53rd Battalion were dug in immediately prior to their attack in that area on 1 September 1918
A view looking towards Anvil Wood from an enemy machine gun position on the Citadel Ramparts of Peronne. It shows the deadly field of enemy fire into which the 53rd Battalion came on the morning of 1
View from St. Denis Mill, near Peronne, looking towards Anvil Wood, over the ground attacked by the 53rd Battalion against heavy opposition on 1 September 1918. During the operation, the Battalion suf
