The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Broodseinde Ridge was seized by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Australian, and 7th British Division on 4 October, that day's action being known as the 'Battle of Broodseinde'. The New Zealand Division simultaneously seized the `Abraham Heights' to the north west. The photograph was taken on 5 October and shows the 24th Battalion in trenches near `Flinte Farm' beyond the crest of the ridge looking down on the woods (in the middle distance) to which the Germans had been driven. Celtic Copse can be seen in the background.
Unidentified Australian soldiers, probably of the 12th Battalion, standing amidst the battalion's dugouts near Daring Crossing. Three days earlier the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Australian Divisions and the 7t
Broodseinde Ridge, Belgium. 5 October 1917. The 24th Battalion in the front line trenches near Flinte Farm, on Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres Sector. These trenches were quickly dug when the position
A view from Flinte Farm of B Company, 24th Battalion, in the newly dug trench of the front line established on the forward slope of Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres Sector, after the successful attack
The 24th Battalion occupying a trench in front of Flinte Farm, dug on the morning of 4 October 1917. In the attack which preceded the capture of Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres Sector. The photograph
The view over no man's land from the front line in the 24th Battalion's sector, near Flinte Farm, on 5 October 1917, the morning after the capture of Broodseinde Ridge. The enemy's line was 200 yards
The battlefield around Helles, in the Ypres sector, looking towards Zonnebeke and Passchendaele. Broodseinde Ridge is to the right, and Albania to the left, with Abraham Heights showing faintly in the
