The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Canadians advance south of the railway. Canadian skirmishers with a tank of the 13th Tank Battalion attacking a machine gun post, which was on the north side of the railway hedge, in front of the Australian sector of the line. Some difficulty was experienced in obtaining this photograph as the men were at the time under heavy fire from machine guns from the trees on the skyline in the distance on the right. Seen in the centre, Lieutenant (Lt) Hall and Lt Payne routing out an enemy machine gun post.
Canadian front line skirmishers on the flank of the Australian troops, working with a tank of 13th Battalion, which had just silenced an enemy machine gun in a hedge. During the interval between the t
Smoke rising from huts and stores fired by the retreating Germans during the Australian advance beyone Peronne. The trees running from left to right in the centre of the photograph, line the Mont St Q
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
The Somme village and the railway running through it. In this vicinity, on 27 March, the 38th Battalion resisted the German advance, using the railway station as a Company Headquarters, whilst the me
France. c. 1917. A German Army machine gun emplacement in the village of Thelus captured by the Canadian Army during the advance on Vimy Ridge. (Donor Canadian Official Photograph)
PAPUA, GIROPA POINT. MEMBERS OF 2/12TH INFANTRY BATTALION ADVANCE AS GENERAL STUART M3 LIGHT TANKS MANNED BY B SQUADRON, 2/6TH ARMOURED REGIMENT, BLAST JAPANESE PILLBOXES IN THE FINAL ASSAULT ON BUNA.