The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The interior of the machine repair shop at the ruined railway station of Bapaume, as it appeared after the German withdrawal in March 1917.
A soldier on horseback rides past the ruined church in the village of Vaulx, as it appeared in April 1917, after the German withdrawal. It is a typical sight, for wrecked churches and religious instit
A destroyed German railway truck abandoned at Bapaume Railway Station in March 1917. Behind the truck can be seen damaged station buildings.
View of ruined German rolling stock at Le Sars Railway Station in March 1917.
View of the exterior of the ruined railway station of Le Sars, as the Germans left it on their retirement in March 1917.
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
Grevillers, France, 1917. The interior of the ruined church in the town located west of Bapaume. Roof timbers damaged by enemy bombardment lie amid the rubble and debris.
