The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This town, one of the main railway centres in Flanders, was threatened by the German Offensive which began near Armentieres on 9 April. The 1st Division, which had just been sent from near this area to the Somme, was ordered back on 11 April and detrained near Hazebrouch on 12 April, taking up beyond the town a reserve line that reached the forest of Nieppe. Within a few hours the 1st Division's line became the front line. Germans attempting to continue their advance on 13 April were severely handled, and all progress in this direction thereupon stopped.
Members of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company preparing a machine gun emplacement at the Pont de Nieppe (Nieppe Bridge), near Armentieres. The bridge was also mined for blowing up in case of necess
Troops of 7th Battalion, 1st Division sheltering under the trees near the front line on the border of Nieppe Forest, when the Australians assisted in stopping the German onrush towards Hazebrouck.
Nieppe, France. 18 April 1918. A Company Headquarters of the 7th Battalion, established an old shooting box in the Forest of Neippe, in Northern France. A week earlier on the arrival of the 1st Divisi
The thickly wooded forest of Nieppe, in Northern France, where 1st Division was hurriedly thrown into the line to stem the German onrush on Hazebrouck.
Studio portrait of 3032 Private (later Corporal) Andrew Boyd, 24th (later 8th) Battalion, of Wodonga, Victoria. An acting accountant prior to enlistment, he embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealt
A British Vickers machine gun in position behind the wingwall of the bridge over the River Lys at Pont de Nieppe, on the Nieppe-Armentieres Road in Northern France. This position was connected by tunn
