The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Looking towards Hamel along the communication trench (CT) running from the village to Pear Trench, over the fiercely contested ground won from the enemy in the Australian attack of 4 July 1918. The bodies of two dead German machine gunners bayoneted during the fighting lie on the ground, while the village is being shelled by the enemy. The Germans were caught behind the barrage in the CT and in almost every bay a dead body was found. Map Ref (1:40,000) 62D.P8.D80.90.
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 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
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
American and Australian dead on the battlefield at Hamel, in front of Vaire and Hamel Wood. In this encounter a battalion of Americans was distributed among the attacking Australian units and fought w
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
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
