The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Enemy strong posts along the sunken road captured by the Australian troops during the fighting for Pear Trench. This photograph was taken on the morning of the battle just after the attack had passed this point. Many enemy dead were left in the wake of the advancing battalions, and in addition there were 1,500 prisoners taken during the operation.
A portion of the sunken road near Pear Trench at Hamel, just after its capture on 4 July 1918. The raised earthwork in the rear of the photograph was used as protection against bombs. The German dead
Hamel Wood and Vaire Wood, from Pear Trench, looking along the sunken road, which was lined with enemy trench mortars and machine guns, and which constituted the first obstacle captured by the 15th Ba
A dead German soldier lies in a bay in the communication trench leading up to Pear Trench near Hamel, the day following the battle in which the Australians of the 6th, 4th, and 11th Infantry Brigades
The dugouts along the sunken road near Pear Trench, which after their capture were used as advanced Headquarters by the 15th Battalion, following the Australian attack at Hamel, on the morning of 4 Ju
A view of Pear Trench and the slope over which the Australians and Americans advanced on the morning of 4 July 1918, in the battle of Hamel. The enemy machine gunner, seen dead in the centre, just beh
Members of the 15th Battalion in one of the captured machine gun positions in Pear Trench at Hamel, from which the Germans did much deadly shooting in the morning during the attack on the village. Fol
