The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Heilly, France. 5 April 1918. View of the Chateau at Heilly. It was used as a Brigade Headquarters by the 3rd Division whilst the troops were engaged near the Ancre and the Somme rivers in holding up the enemy advance on Amiens. In November and December 1916 and January 1917, the 1st Anzac Headquarters was located at Heilly. The chateau was occupied by Generals Birdwood, White, Carruthers and Lotbiniere and probably other officers of the staff, but only the Corps Commander had an office there. The Chateau is very old and has extensive underground rooms. On one occasion General Birdwood represented a number of decorations to Australians in these underground rooms.
Eight unidentified members of the 7th Field Company of Australian Engineers gathered under a tree outside the 'Tea Rooms' (right). At the time Heilly was used as a Brigade Headquarters by the 3rd Di
An old house used as Headquarters of the 11th Infantry Brigade, near Heilly, when the troops of the Brigade were engaged against the advancing Germans on the high ground between the Ancre and the Somm
View of the Ancre battlefield from the British front line. The trees on the horizon are in the village of Courcelette. The Ancre River flows into the Somme east of Amiens. The French and German lin
View of the Church at Heilly. In the Chateau at Heilly was situated the Brigade Headquarters for the Morlancourt sector.
A view of wire entanglements in a field, which were erected by the French Army in the early stages of the war. At this time a chateau in Baizieux served as the Headquarters for the 4th Division while
Two horse drawn wagons and a motor car passing the brick kiln located on the high ground across the Ancre, south of Heilly. The position was used both as a headquarters and a first aid post until it
