The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Major A M Phillips, beside a trench mortar captured by the 11th Battalion, at Mont de Merris, in a raid on the enemy a few days before.
These trench mortars at Mont-de-Merris captured by the 11th Battalion were still too near the front line to be removed with safety. Major A. M. Phillips DSO, and Lieutenant L. G. Riches MC (pointing)
Strazeele, France. 17 June 1918. A German field gun near a captured strong post on Mont-de-Merris, in Northern France. It was here that the 11th Battalion, in the attack some days before, encountered
Lieutenant L G Riches MC, of the 11th Battalion, examining a German stick grenade in a captured German strongpost at Mont de Merris. The village of Strazeele can be seen in the top left hand corner.
A view of the ruined farmhouse which was the 11th Battalion's first objective in an advance on 2 June 1918, taken from the second objective, Mont-de-Merris, a hill situated between the villages of Str
An unidentified soldier stands beside a crater made by a German minenwerfer (trench mortar) bomb that fell just behind the front trench of the 11th Battalion near the Cordonnerie Farm during the bomba
Two men of the 7th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery operate a light trench mortar established in a machine gun post on the new front line. From left to right: 1916 Lance Corporal A. J. Ellis and
