The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Near Lens, France. 30 January 1918. A heavy trench mortar emplacement, constructed by the No. 2 Section of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company close to Counter Trench at Cite St. Pierre, near Lens, from material salvaged from enemy dumps. The camouflage netting is rolled back to show the projecting barrel of the gun, which had a range of 2,400 yards and fired a shell weighting 152lbs. Identified, in the trench, left to right: unidentified British soldier (Tommy), 11th Division; Major A. Sanderson DSO MC; unidentified British soldier (Tommy), 11th Division.
Near Lens, France. 30 January 1918. A heavy trench mortar emplacement, constructed by the No. 2 Section of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company close to Counter Trench at Cite St. Pierre, near Lens,
A panorama of Loos, showing on the left the road leading to Crucifix Dump. In the centre of the picture is Loos Crassier with Hill 70 in the background is Fosse 121, Cite St. Pierre. The 3rd Australia
A bridge built across a railway cutting near Vendelles, in France, by the 12th Field Company of Australian Engineers, with materials salvaged from captured German dumps. This structure, built alongide
Cairns, Qld. Unidentified members, probably of the 10th Australian Light Anti Aircraft Battery, standing around a Bofors 40mm Anti Aircraft gun emplacement opposite a row of houses on a street in Cair
A sandbagged trench leading to the entrance of a tunnel (background, left). During June and July 1917 the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, attached to the 1st British Division, were engaged in cons
Near Tool Farm, Belgium. An unidentified Australian soldier looking at a Stokes trench mortar at a battle position located in a sector occupied by the 1st Division.
