The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Members of the 3rd Division at the rear of a British tank to the rear of Duncans Post, near Ronssoy, watching the progress of their comrades in the attack on the Hindenburg Line. The horizontal plate behind the crouching figures is the fuel tank's armoured shield. The large square section beam hanging across the rear of the tank is the unditching beam. The slightly angled beam which ascends towards the beam is the unditching rail. The thick section chain by which the beam was secured to the tank track is seen on the right hand side. On top of the tank may be seen rolls of dannert barbed wire and pigstail barbed wire pickets. The tank identification number J4[?] may just be made out underneath the unditching beam. Identified: an American soldier (second from the left) and 3632 Lance Corporal P. M. James (seated, bottom right). Note that this is a triple exposure on the right hand side.
Two unidentified Australian soldiers inspecting a disabled Mark IV Male tank lying in the mud in a large shell crater. The tank's right hand side un-ditching beam has been ripped off, as has the rear
A disabled British Mark V Male tank (with number 4 stencilled to the side) lies abandoned on the battlefield near Duncan Post. The tank was put out of action by a land mine, one of which can be seen i
Snared by a tree trunk and subsequently put out of action by shellfire, this Mk IV Female tank assisted in the operations in the Ypres fighting in September. The tank has ben hit in multiple locations
Ronssoy, France. 3 October 1918. View showing the distribution of land mines in the wire near Duncan Post, Ronssoy, which rendered useless many of the tanks assisting in the attack on this sector of t
At the 5th Tank Brigade demonstration ground, Vaux-en-Amienois, France, Australian soldiers inspect Mephisto, a German A7V tank. After being bogged and abandoned on the battlefield it was recovered o
Two disabled Mark V Male tanks at Ronssoy, France. 29 September 1918. The left hand tank bears the number 9116. This tank, serving in A Company, 4th Battalion, under the command of 2nd Lt Boulton, w
