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 camouflagae 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. In the trench are two unidentified British soldiers (Tommys) of the 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 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
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 constructed of salvaged material by Australian Engineers over the Somme Canal near Peronne, during the Australian advance in September 1918. A truck crosses the bridge, some soldiers follow b
Portrait of 765 Corporal Horace Garfield Kurrle of Hawksburn, Vic. He served with 38 Battalion, and was killed by a German mortar on 2 January 1917 at his post in a trench near Houplines in Flanders
Finschhafen, New Guinea. Mortar shells burst near a Japanese position. A 2 inch mortar is fired at 150 yards range at a Japanese position at the base of a tall tree on the Sattelberg Road. Shortly aft
