The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Hill 104, France. 29 April 1918. A view of Hill 104 photographed from Villers-Bretonneux. It was the crest of this hill that the Germans wrested from the exhausted British troops in the early morning of 24 April and from which they were driven the same night by the 13th and 15th Australian Brigades during the counter-attack by which the Australians recaptured Villers-Bretonneux, and drove back the enemy.
A group of unidentified Australian soldiers (left) digging near Hill 104. The contour of the hill and the Bois de l'Abbe (Abbey Wood) are visible in the background. Hill 104 was the dominating featu
A German gun crew lying dead around their machine gun position, having been killed during the strenuous fighting on the night counter attack of April 24th, by which the 13th and 15th Australian Brigad
Unidentified members of an Australian burial party standing amongst the bodies of several German prisoners killed the previous morning by a German shell while being escorted to a prisoner of war cage.
Unidentified members of an Australian burial party standing amongst the bodies of several German prisoners killed the previous morning by a German shell while being escorted to a prisoner of war cage.
An abandoned German cooker in no man's land between Monument Wood and Villers-Bretonneux. It was left by the enemy when the counter attack by the 13th and 15th Brigades recaptured Villers-Bretonneux o
A German cooker smashed by a shell and abandoned by the enemy, near Monument Wood and Villers-Bretonneux, during the counter attack of the 13th and 15th Brigades at Villers-Bretonneux, on the night of
