The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Canadian front line skirmishers on the flank of the Australian troops, working with a tank of 13th Battalion, which had just silenced an enemy machine gun in a hedge. During the interval between the taking of E02881 and this frame, twelve men in the vicinity of the camera were wounded by machine gun fire.
Canadians advance south of the railway. Canadian skirmishers with a tank of the 13th Tank Battalion attacking a machine gun post, which was on the north side of the railway hedge, in front of the Aust
A line of machine gun posts near Harbonnieres which, in the advance of 9 August 1918, caused severe casualties amongst the 15th Australian Infantry Brigade, and held them up for about an hour, until a
The Somme village and the railway running through it. In this vicinity, on 27 March, the 38th Battalion resisted the German advance, using the railway station as a Company Headquarters, whilst the me
Near Dernancourt. 27 April 1918. Looking towards Dernancourt and Ville-sur-Ancre from a front line position occupied by Australians at Marett Wood. Several Germans could be plainly seen in the distanc
Smoke rising from huts and stores fired by the retreating Germans during the Australian advance beyone Peronne. The trees running from left to right in the centre of the photograph, line the Mont St Q
An interesting series of photographs illustrating the accurate fire of an enemy 5.9 inch gun in the vicinity of Chuignolles, when the Australian troops were forcing their advance over this area. This
