The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The Town Hall was blown up about midnight, while two companies of the 22nd Battalion were on the march up from Le Sars to billet in the Town Hall. They arrived to be immediately given the task of removing the debris from the street. Unidentified company with shovels digging amidst the ruins, which took days. At left back, second line in, overlooking the excavation, is Captain Wagstaff, Tunnelling Company. Standing in front of ruined buildings, second from right, is Brigadier General Martin CMG DSO.
Haplincourt, France, 1917. The ruins of the church in the town located east of Bapaume. Standing amidst the debris in the foreground is an icon of the crucified Christ with its arms blown off.
View of the wrecked Town Hall at Bapaume. Early on the morning of the 26 March 1917, two companies of the 22nd Battalion moved into Bapaume to billet in the Town Hall. Their move, was by accident, del
Members of B Company, 22nd Battalion clearing the debris of the mined Town Hall. At midnight on 25 March, the explosion occurred, burying some civilians and a number of soldiers. Working parties at on
Bapaume, France, 1917-03. View of the main street (left) and ruined buildings, including in the centre the ruins of the town hall. The building was destroyed by a German mine with a delayed-action che
The Seaforth and Shoreditch mine craters at Hill 70, near Lens. These mines were blown from 100 feet below the surface by British Tunnelling Companies, during the mine fighting in March and April 1916
A wounded British airman being carried up the Bapaume Road, through Le Sars, on the day the Australians entered Bapaume. Identified are: Private Eastman, 2nd Pioneers (extreme left); Private Smith, 2n
