The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicted here is a raiding party incident during occupation of Strazeele Front by Australian 1st Division at Strazeele, Lys Area, Western Front.
Winter was well and truly over when April arrived in 1918, and the Germans began a major attack that became known as the German Spring Offensive. Using troops brought to the west after the collapse of Russia, German High Command sought to win the war before the newly-arrived American forces could tip the balance in favour of France and Brtain. On the 14th of April, Australians in the trenches at Strazeele could see the Germans assembling and preparing for an attack. At 6:40 in the morning, the Germans began a heavy bombardment of the British and Commonwealth lines and waves of German infantry began advancing. The painting refers to the German offensive and the fighting which took place over the next 48 hours, in which the British-Australian front line fought vigorously and successfully resisted the attack.
View of the village of Kemmel from a hillside. Kemmel Ridge was a key feature on the French-Belgium border that came under attack during the German Army's Lys offensive of April 1918. British and domi
Batteries of 12th Australian Field Artillery Brigade withdrawing at the gallop in face of approaching German troops at Calonne; German offensive March-April 1918, Battle of the Lys, Western Front.
Panorama of Mt Kemmel, mapping out geographical reference points such as Dickiebush Lake, Ypres, Kemmel Road, Wytschaete Ridge, the road to Messines, Messines Ridge and Lille. Kemmel Ridge was a key f
Australian Halifax aircraft on a daylight raid over Germany. This is the view obtained from a position immediately alongside the pilot and shown two of the powerful Bristol Hercules motors of a Halifa
Strazeele, France. 28 July 1918. The railway station which was 100 yards west of a front outpost line the 1st Infantry Brigade, AIF, established during the German Army offensive in April 1918. (Donor
The subject is a daylight raid over Darwin during the Second World War. The aircraft, distant in the vast sky, are depicted in small blue brushstrokes. They are surrounded by dispersed patches of d