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Photograph E00423 First World War, 1914-1918Three Australian soldiers inspecting a wrecked bridge over the railway at Bapaume, which was blown up by the Germans on their retirement in March 1917.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A concrete emplacement for heavy guns south east of Grevillers, near Bapaume, in May 1917, which the Germans wrecked on their withdrawal.
Three Australian soldiers inspecting a wrecked bridge over the railway at Bapaume, which was blown up by the Germans on their retirement in March 1917.

The ruins of Bapaume Church, in 1917. Bapaume was wantonly destroyed by the Germans during their withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, in the Spring of 1917.

Concrete emplacements built by the enemy for his big guns in a wood near Grevillers and destroyed during the big German retirement in February and March 1917, to prevent them falling into our hands.

A view through an archway of the shell wrecked church of Grevillers in May 1917.

Troops inspecting a battery of German 4.2 guns and ammunition which was captured at Grevillers during the advance on Bapaume. Two soldiers sit next to the shells.

New Guinea. Heavy sandbag emplacement before a Bofors ack ack (anti-aircraft) position on the beach to the east of Sansapor with a wrecked Japanese barge in the middle ground.
