The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
View from one of the front-line posts established by the 1st Division in pushing forward east of Hazebrouck. In front is Lieutenant L. G. Riches MC of the 11th Battalion sitting on a German field gun abandoned in no man's land, which was bombed with rifle grenades a few minutes later. A German outpost was 150 yards away. About this time in 1918 the Australian infantry began to corrode the enemy's line by a series of extraordinarily successful raids. From posts such as this small parties of all brigades constantly raided the posts opposed to them. In the foreground is the opening of a communication sap previously used by the enemy.
Officers of the 11th Battalion, examining part of the machine gun in the German machine gun post (German outpost line before the attack) which parties of the 11th Battalion, operating from the house i
A view of one end of the casualty clearing station and beyond it the Australian lines. The curved white line to the left was the Australian front line trench; the German posts were situated where the
An abandoned German cooker in no man's land between Monument Wood and Villers-Bretonneux. It was left by the enemy when the counter attack by the 13th and 15th Brigades recaptured Villers-Bretonneux o
German dead along their front line posts near Hannebeek, after its capture in the Battle of Broodseinde on the Menin Road on 20 September 1917. The 5th, 6th and 7th Brigades advanced over this area fr
No man's land as seen from the Australian front line, showing a British shell bursting in the German lines.
A view of the badly damaged buildings of the Dernancourt Casualty Clearing Station, taken from 'The Ravine' in No Man's Land. In the foreground is the railway line running from Albert to Amiens and i
