The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The German offensive, 1918. Men of the 180th British (Tunnelling) Company, Royal Engineers (who, like many others, had fought as infantry in Carey's Force during the March retreat), digging trenches across the front of the German advance, near Albert, on 27 March, day on which the 3rd and 4th Australian Divisions relieved the 9th and 35th British Divisions, then opposing the German advance near Dernancourt (beyond the far hill) and Morlancourt.
The German offensive, 1918, its extreme forward limit at Dernancourt. Part of the battlefield of Dernancourt, near Albert, showing the village and church held by the Germans, and the railway line on w
Near Longueval, France. 24 March 1918. The German offensive, 1918. British troops (probably of the 35th Division, which this day filled the gap on the old Somme Battlefield) waiting by the roadside ne
Near Morlancourt Ridge, France. 7 April 1918. The 37th Battalion occupying a sunken road in front of Marett Wood, near Morlancourt Ridge, when the enemy occupied the ridge in the distance. This road m
The Belgian coast between Ostende (now Oostende) and Nieuport (Nieuwpoort). Clustered on the left are various important buildings at Ostende; beyond, left to right, are the towns of Middlekerke, Nieu
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
View of 'Till Trench', near Thilloy, on the Somme, in May 1917, where the Germans fought a strong rearguard action, during their retreat in February 1917. The defence of the rearguard, though it resul
