The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This mound, which stood on the far side of Polygon Wood, was taken by the 5th Division in the Battle of that name on 26 September, despite heavy difficulties caused by the driving in of the line immediately to the south of it on 25 September. Around its slopes were thickly strewn the shell torn bodies of more than a hundred German, Australian and English troops.
Hamel Wood and Vaire Wood, from Pear Trench, looking along the sunken road, which was lined with enemy trench mortars and machine guns, and which constituted the first obstacle captured by the 15th Ba
The mud covered corduroy track enables men of the 3rd Division to pass over the marshes near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres Sector. The heavy rains of several days before caused the shell torn ground to beco
Square fabric featuring a separately inset central diamond shaped colour patch for 21 Infantry Battalion AIF, horizontally divided black over red. The fabric has been badly torn overall. The hoist fea
View of No. 1 (A subsection) Gun of the 16th Battery of Australian Field Artillery 'out of action' in the Ypres sector. The Battery was taking part in the barrage covering the attack by the 5th Divisi
Australian troops occupying trenches and shell holes won from the enemy at Polygon Wood in the Ypres sector, during the battle on 20 September 1917. Note the .303 Lee Enfield rifles on the trench wall
No man's land and the Mound near the railway at Monument Wood. The mound is the only prominent feature of the landscape, and was used by the enemy as an observation post. It was taken by the enemy in
