The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The fragments of a gas cylinder after bursting and releasing the gas at Mont de Merris. Projected into the enemy lines at favourable intervals, they formed a deadly prelude to many of the harassing attacks made by the Australians of the 1st Division in this sector during June and July 1918. The officer shown is Lieutenant L. G. Riches MC of the 11th Battalion. Note by Sergeant A. Brooksbank, Gas Non-commissioned Officer, 10th Infantry Brigade: Projector drum, the missile from Livens projectors. Note the drum is merely split open giving little fragmentation; it would have been filled with gas in liquid form and provided with a small bursting charge to open it as shown.
The Australian barrage on enemy territory to assist the attack on Hamel, by the 6th, 4th, and 11th Infantry Brigades, assisted by a Battalion of Americans. The picture was taken from the high ground a
Troopers cleaning a Lewis gun in a front line trench, while others keep watch (right). A foghorn is being used as a gas alarm (centre left). A note by Sergeant A Brooksbank, Gas NCO, 10th Australian
Near Bois de l'Abbe, France. 27 May 1918. Gassed Australian soldiers lying out in the open at an over crowded aid post near Bois l’Abbé. They have been gassed in the operations in front of Villers-Bre
An unidentified soldier with a gong that was used in the Australian front line system to sound the alarm when gas attacks occurred. The soldier is holding a metal rod that was used to strike the gong
Anzac Cove, Gallipoli. 1915-12-19. Two soldiers crouch in the entrance to a tunnel on the right flank from the front line towards Turk trenches. The tunnel was used by members of No. 2 Field Company,
