The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
C Company of the 30th Battalion resting on the outskirts of Bapaume, on 17 March 1917, the day of its capture by our troops. A German shrapnel shell bursting over the town shows above the centre of the photograph.
Machine gunners of the 2nd Division, on the day of the Australian occupation of Bapaume, 17 March 1917, resting on the German railway which was laid down along the main Bapaume road. The burning town
A scene in the burning town of Bapaume, in France, on 17 March 1917, the day of its occupation by the Australian troops.
Machine gunners passing along on the Western outskirts of Bapaume, in France, moving up to new positions, following the occupation of the town by Australian troops on 17 March 1917. Note the soldier s
The ruined town, seen from across the river. In the foreground is the Somme Canal, and immediately above the centre of the town shrapnel may be observed bursting over the old historic church.
View of the Mairie (Town Hall) in Bapaume, burning on the day the Australians entered the town, 17 March 1917.
Four unidentified soldiers of the 8th Brigade resting on the western outskirts of Bapaume, when the town was entered by the Australian troops on the heels of the retiring Germans.
