The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An aerial view taken during the tour in the Line of the 5th Australian Division showing mine craters between the German and Australian lines, situated 2,000 yards north of Fromelles. Cordonnerie Farm is to the north of the Australian lines and Delangre Farm is to the south of the German lines. Map on Page 380 of Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18, Vol.III The AIF in France 1916 by C. E. W. Bean, shows the battlefield (from a different agle).
An aerial view of the battlefield of Fromelles, showing the German trenches captured by the 5th Australian Division. The mine craters between the German and Australian lines are situated 2,000 yards n
View from the quarry in front of Mouquet Farm, in France, looking south across the valley to Skyline Trench, showing the shell pitted nature of this slope on which the German barrage used to fall in t
An aerial view of Cordonnerie Farm, British map reference 36.N.10. The heavily shelled farm house is just above the British frontline trenches and inside a reverse L shaped road that touches the righ
The ruins of a brick chimney at Delangre Farm, the scene of severe fighting in the attack by the 5th Australian Division at Fromelles on 19 July 1916. Barbed wire entanglements in the foreground rema
An aerial view of the Cordonnerie Salient, British map reference 36.N.10. The heavily shelled farm house that gave its name to this feature of the British frontline is seen just on the righthand edge
The remains of a shell damaged farm on the Fromelles battlefield, an area in which the 5th Australian Division suffered heavy casualties in an attack on 19 July 1916.
