The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The German offensive began on 21 March 1918, its full weight falling upon the extended British line near its junction with that of the French. This was far south of the sector held by the Australian Corps. Here men of the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, which happened to be behind the sector attacked, wait near Le Sars, on the old Somme battlefield, for transport in which to move their equipment. Identified in the foreground, left to right: Driver J. Plummer (with cigarette in mouth); 553 Sapper David Archibald Fanner (foreground); Corporal S. Blight (behind Fanner).
A German dugout on the Butte de Warlencourt, near Le Sars, France, which throughout January and February 1917, overlooked the Australian lines. The Butte was daily made a target for our artillery fire
An oblique aerial view of country looking towards the village of Le Sars along the Albert to Bapaume road, identified by the vertical line in this photograph. This photograph was likely taken from a B
Members of the 2nd Pioneer Battalion filling in one of the several large craters caused by German mines on the main Bapaume Road between Le Sars and Bapaume. This crater, the nearest to Bapaume, was f
A Chinese labourer attached to the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, resting with his pack, near Contalmaison, during the British retirement before the big German offensive, which commenced on 21 Mar
The Town Hall was blown up about midnight, while two companies of the 22nd Battalion were on the march up from Le Sars to billet in the Town Hall. They arrived to be immediately given the task of remo
A machine gun crew of the 24th Battalion in the front line trenches near Flinte Farm, in the Ypres Sector of Belgium. The ridge in the background is Kieberg Spur. Identified, foreground to background:
