The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The German withdrawal. Noreuil (beyond Vaulx-Vraucourt and near the Hindenburg Line), showing the slope down which the 50th Battalion advanced on 2 April to the seizure of the village, an occasion of stubborn fighting. One of the German strong posts was in the cemetery. A simultaneous advance was made on the opposite slope of the valley by the 51st Battalion. The Hindenburg Line K which is not shown, lay in the far distance to the right of the picture. Australians who fell in this vicinity were buried in this cemetery. Note the barbed wire entanglements in the foreground.
The crater in Lagnicourt (beyond Vaulx-Vraucourt and near the Hindenberg line), the scene some months earlier of heavy hand to hand fighting. Lagnicourt was captured by the 7th Australian Infantry Bri
The barbed wire entanglements in front of the first line of defences in the Hindenburg system near Bellenglise.
Looking over old German wire entanglements towards the village of Hermies (beyond Doignies and near the Hindenburg Line), though possessing strong defences, was siezed during the morning of 9 April, b
Two Australian soldiers, probably of the 1st Machine Gun Battalion, stand in the arched doorway at the site where Captain P H Cherry won his Victoria Cross. The sign painted on the brick wall of the b
Vaulx-Vraucourt, France, 1917. Ruined houses, damaged by enemy bombardment, line a road in the town located northeast of Bapaume.
A party of the 45th Battalion, erecting barbed wire apron entanglements, near Ascension Farm, in front of the Hindenburg Outpost Line, captured in the attack by the Australian troops the day before.