The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The whole scene behind our infantry is massed with guns and carpeted with shells. A battery of 8 in Howitzers (1st Australian Siege Battery), near Gordon House, in the Ypres Sector, with shells of an adjacent 9.2 inch Battery dumped in the foreground. There were great concentrations of artillery in this area, and the devastated ground was a witness to the intensity of the duels with took place. Identified is 676 G. W. C. Whyte (extreme left looking towards camera).
The 2nd Australian Siege Battery (55th Australian Siege Artillery Battery) unloading 9.2 inch shells from a motor lorry at Voormezeele. Left to right, back: Corporal Gilham; Private (Pte) A Fox; Pte N
A 9.2 inch Howitzer of the 2nd Australian Siege Battery, Royal Australian Garrison Artillery (RAGA), assisting our infantry in the fighting of the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917. Note the gun is covere
View of a battery of four 8 inch Howitzers near Birr Crossroads, supporting the Australians fighting in the Ypres sector.
View of 6 inch Howitzers in action near Westhoek, in the Ypres sector. Note the discarded wooden boxes in the left foreground and the large pile of shells on the centre foreground.
The 54th Battery of Australian Siege Artillery in action at Lock 8 on the Ypres-Comines Canal, south of Ypres. Note the large row of shells in the foreground.
Two Australian gunners of the 54th Siege Battery, at Comines Canal Ypres, nose-capping shells. Note the field gun behind.
