The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The German offensive, 1918. An old Frenchwoman at her house (20 Hes), before the battle of Amiens, in which she had remained alone and without candle or lamp during the day and night of 4 April 1918, while the German attack reduced the village to ruins.
Poretta, Corsica, France. April 1944. Informal portrait of Mathea Pittiloni beneath the French Tricolour flag whose honour she upheld during the German occupation of her village. Mathea, though only s
The Battle of the Hindenburg Line which began September 18, 1918, was a key turning point in the Hundred Days Offensive that eventually led to the end of World War 1. British forces spearheaded the at
Before Amiens, this village in the Somme valley is here shown (from the south), the day after its capture in a local attack by the 4th, 6th and 11th Australian Infantry Brigades, and attached American
The ruins of the church in a Somme village that was occupied by the troops in rest billets in 1916, and by Battalion Headquarters after the German spring offensive in 1918. The remains of steps leadi
Soldiers, mules and carts stopped on a street in the ruined village of Voormezeele. Voormezeele was reduced to ruins during the war. Standing behind the British front lines and a few kilometres south
Two unidentified soldiers stand outside a billet in the ruined village of Voormezeele. Voormezeele was reduced to ruins during the war. Standing behind the British front lines and a few kilometres sou
