The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Three unidentified members of the 2nd Divisional Pioneers erecting camouflage screens along the Franvillers Road. Franvillers was the centre of the reserve system for the troops operating on Morlancourt Ridge between the Ancre and the Somme. Left to right: 3569 Private (Pte) C. L. Gaston; 2604 Pte J. P. Currey, standing on ladder; 2571 J. W. Burton. All are members of No. 6 Platoon, B Company.
France. 3 May 1918. View taken from reserve Company Headquarters looking west. Our 18 pounder batteries just beyond ridge. Headquarters gully on Morlancourt front, south of Marret Wood. Left to right
Contour map of the Somme position, Section II, Morlancourt Ridge. (Running East and West between Ancre and Somme Rivers.) Dotted line shows approximate line 27 March 1918. Dashed line shows advances m
The members of the 3rd Division preparing a new trench system near Mericourt, in France, two days after the first onslaught of the enemy had been checked beyond the junction of the Ancre and the Somme
The Sunken Road in front of Treux Wood, from which the Germans were forced by the 10th Infantry Brigade in their capture of Marett and Treux Woods, on 28 March 1918. Moving down from the northern slop
The furthest post towards Morlancourt taken by the Australians during the advance. It is within bombing distance (less than forty yards of the enemy). These trenches were taken by the 58th and 59th Ba
Members of D Company, 5th Australian Pioneer Battalion near Dranoutre, erecting sheds in Donegal Camp, to shelter horses during the winter; the huts in rear are those occupied by the men. Donegal Camp
