The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Group portrait of members of the 4th Field Company of Australian Engineers viewing the wide gap in the wire blown by an experimental 'Bangalore Torpedo'. These 'torpedoes', devised by the Australian Engineers, consisted of an iron tube about eighteen feet long, filled with aminol. Placed under the enemy wire at night, their explosion at the moment of attack created a gap in the entanglements through which attacking troops made a passage. Left to right: 4148 Sapper (Spr) F. G. Wood MM; 15258 Spr W. G. Ross DCM; Lieutenant Colonel R. J. Dyer DSO, Commander Royal Engineers, 4th Division Engineer Headquarters (behind); unidentified; Major H. G. Tolley DSO, Officer Commanding (behind); four unidentified; Captain A. H. Dow MC (behind); unidentified; 7117 Spr D. E. Russell (behind); unidentified; 4036 Second Corporal A. Colbert MM (behind); five unidentified.
Unidentified Australian engineers climbing out of a trench to follow a party of infantry (background right), at a practice firing of a Bangalore Torpedo. This torpedo was devised by Australian enginee
Two unidentified engineers of the 4th Field Company preparing an experimental Bangalore Torpedo during a practice firing. The torpedo was devised by Australian engineers and consisted of a long iron
The explosion of an experimental 'Bangalore Torpedo' near Corbie. The torpedo consisted of a long pipe filled with explosives, which was placed under the enemy barbed wire entanglements, and detonated
Group portrait of the Headquarters Staff of the 4th Division. Back row, left to right: Lieutenant (Lt) G. R. Baillie; Lt A. R. Mitchell; Captain (Capt) A. M. Moulden; Capt E. H. G. Kemmis. Second row:
Near Catelet, France. 17 September 1918. A dummy tank completed by the 4th Field Company of Australian Engineers, near Catelet, for use the next day in the attack on Le Verguier by the 1st and 4th Div
BARBED WIRE PATTERN. A FRONT LINE SILHOUETTE MADE BY A TANGLE OF WIRE AT A MINEFIELD GAP AFTER ENGINEERS HAD CLEARED A PASSAGE FOR TANKS NEAR TEL EL EISA. (NEGATIVE BY F. HURLEY).
