The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The dugouts along the sunken road near Pear Trench, which after their capture were used as advanced Headquarters by the 15th Battalion, following the Australian attack at Hamel, on the morning of 4 July 1918. The bodies of German dead lay strewn along the road and piled up in the dugouts, having been bayoneted by the attacking troops who suffered considerably in the advance against the machine gun nests in this position. Shown: 3096 Lance Corporal A. J. Hammond of 15th Battalion. At left is the beginning of Pear Trench. In the centre, background is the enemy bomb stop on the road.
Hamel Wood and Vaire Wood, from Pear Trench, looking along the sunken road, which was lined with enemy trench mortars and machine guns, and which constituted the first obstacle captured by the 15th Ba
A portion of the sunken road near Pear Trench at Hamel, just after its capture on 4 July 1918. The raised earthwork in the rear of the photograph was used as protection against bombs. The German dead
Looking towards Hamel along the communication trench (CT) running from the village to Pear Trench, over the fiercely contested ground won from the enemy in the Australian attack of 4 July 1918. The bo
Men of the 15th Battalion, on the day of the fight at Hamel, worn out and asleep under camouflage which was found covering a German trench mortar in Pear Trench.
Members of the 15th Battalion in one of the captured machine gun positions in Pear Trench at Hamel, from which the Germans did much deadly shooting in the morning during the attack on the village. Fol
Members of the 15th Battalion in one of the captured machine gun positions in Pear Trench at Hamel, from which the Germans did much deadly shooting in the morning during the attack on the village. Fol
