The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Troops of the 11th and 12th Battalions, about midday, smoking cigars salvaged from captured enemy dugouts near Bois de Crepy. Half an hour before the 12th Battalion had passed through the 11th Battalion at this point to press the attack towards Lihons.
Unidentified Australian stretcher bearers of the 9th Battalion, bringing in a wounded man to a Regimental Aid Post which had been established by the enemy near Bois de Crepy, before Lihons, and captur
Trench near Crepy Wood during the attack upon Lihons. The 10th Battalion on 10 August 1918 in the Old Somme trench system near Lihons; Crepy Wood in the background, and some of the enemy field guns wh
Troops of the 10th Battalion occupying captured trenches near Bois de Crepy. The field guns were two of many pieces captured by the Australians in the great offensive which commenced on 8 August 1918
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
The Somme Valley and the slopes captured by the Australian troops during the opening of the great offensive on 8 August 1918. The attacking Australian Brigades in the first assault were the 11th, 9th
A front line observation post of the 11th Battalion, near Lihons, within two hundred yards of the enemy, who could be seen dodging about dugout entrances in the trenches. The four soldiers are unident
