The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Before Amiens, this village in the Somme valley is here shown (from the south), the day after its capture in a local attack by the 4th, 6th and 11th Australian Infantry Brigades, and attached Americans. General Monash made this operation the opportunity for an experiment in the co-operation of artillery, infantry, tanks, and aeroplanes; and the battle, which was completely successful, was in some respects the model for the subsequent offensive of 8 August. (The streaks of earth are the rims of shell craters or of shallow scars made by the burst of shells with "instantaneous" fuses.)
A shallow shell hole and radiating marks in a field near Corbie, the traces left after the explosion of a light German field gun shell capped with an instantaneous fuse, first fitted to these projecti
The Albert-Amiens Railway Line, where it runs through the village of Dernancourt. A decisive battle was fought on this ground on 5 April 1918, when the Germans of four divisions vainly endeavoured by
Multi Bound book containing: RECNO TITLE: 422 Schedule for Bristol F.2.B. biplane two-seater (190 H.P. Rolls-Royce engine). 1044 Instructions regarding precautions to be taken in the event of fall
Americans and Australians visiting a park of captured guns at Tincourt. Following the operation at Hamel, on 4 July, when there was a sprinkling of American troops in the attacking Australian Brigades
File of papers relating to the First World War service of Brigadier General John Monash, 4th Infantry Brigade. This file, originally part of Book 13, covers 1 June 1916 and 1 July 1916 and includes a
Ermelo, South Africa, c. 1901. Boer prisoners in a prisoner of war compound near Ermelo during the South African (Boer) War. The prisoners are in a barbed wire enclosure. Their sleeping quarters have
