The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This small town, on the edge of the high land ten miles from Amiens, was attacked by the Germans on 4 April and 24 April in order to obtain a position dominating the city. The photograph shows the main road astride of which the Germans originally advanced towards Amiens. The fighting of 4 April occurred near the line of the old aeroplane hangars seen in the distance. On 24 April, when the Germans seized the town, they were practically encircled during the night by the counter attack of the 15th and 13th Brigades. The 15th driving past the left of the town, reached the distant house on the left of the road, while the 13th driving past on the right, attained a position hidden by the roof on the right.
A German cooker smashed by a shell and abandoned by the enemy, near Monument Wood and Villers-Bretonneux, during the counter attack of the 13th and 15th Brigades at Villers-Bretonneux, on the night of
The first tank captured from the Germans, an A7V, with the name Elfriede. It was salvaged by the French at Saleux, near Villers-Bretonneux, and is en route to Paris. With others, it was used by the en
An unidentified member of an Australian burial party collecting identification from the mangled remains of German prisoners before the bodies are buried. The prisoners, killed the previous morning by
Three unidentified members of an Australian burial party standing over the mangled bodies of German prisoners. The prisoners, killed the previous morning when a German shell burst among them while be
Bois de l'Abbe, France. 29 April 1918. The limit of the German offensive near Villers-Bretonneux. From this wood in rear of Villers-Bretonneux on 4 April the British batteries were forced to withdraw,
The ruined buildings seen from the window of the South Chateau, then occupied by a light trench mortar battery. The village was the scene of some fighting, chiefly mopping up, following the recapture
