The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A German machine gun captured at a house in Hamel. The success of the battle of Hamel cut out the German re-entrant in the Australian lines between Hill 104, near Villers-Bretonneux, and the Somme at Sailly Laurette. The village itself with Vaire Wood formed the chief obstacle to the advance. A number of machine guns were taken by the 11th Brigade in the capture of the village.
The burning village of Hamel (centre) and the smoke enveloped Hamel Wood, during their attack and capture by the Australian troops, on 4 July 1918. The line of trees running from left to right borders
German Army artillery map board consisting of a mosaic of maps pasted onto a wooden background. It covers parts of the Somme area. The information text is damaged but may be for artillery position 330
German artillery map boad marked 'Batterieplankarte fur Stellung Nr 371w'. Board is wooden, on which is pasted a mosaic of maps and a quadrant shaped compass scale. It is also marked ' Stande der Fei
This was the name given to a trench east of Villers Bretonneux in which the 5th Brigade formed up for the 8 August 1918 attack. Map ref: 62dSE1 (Hamel-Vaire Wood) grid ref P 20 d, 21 a, & c, 26 a,b &
A view of the Somme Valley from the high ground near Vaux-sur-Somme, looking directly towards Mallard Wood, with Sailly Laurette behind it and the village of Sailly-le-Sec on the left. At this time th
Near Sailly-le-Sec, France. 29 March 1918. A machine gun position commanding a section of the Somme Canal near Sailly-le-Sec. It was in front of Sailly-le-Sec that troops of the 3rd Division held up t
