The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Near Morchies, France. German practice trenches showing some of the 2000-3000 carefully dug imitation craters. In a later phase of the war the German defences in certain sectors consisted of connected shell hole posts rather than well defined and carefully constructed trench systems.
New trenches being dug at Franvillers, in France, by a British Labour Battalion. Franvillers was occupied at Headquarters by the 3rd Division, on 27 March, when the German advance on Amiens at this po
Machine gunners of the 4th Division, with a captured trench mortar in the trenches near Garter Point, in the Ypres Salient. This was the nearest rest trench to the enemy, and although some distance aw
RECNO Title 1917 8 inch-proof shaft dugout / (251st Tunnelling Co., R.E., 1918). 13766 Ablution bench : Scale 1 in. to 1 foot. 24139 Accommodation : dugouts, pill-boxes, shelters, etc. / Centre Divi
A message shell, consisting of four components: a light minenwerfer shell case, a flare in which there is a compartment to take a message, a burster, and a time fuze. The shell is fired from a light t
Depicts a panoramic view of the Sugarloaf Salient area at Fromelles, with men of 5th Division AIF crossing No Man's Land towards the German trenches. Shell bursts and explosions can be seen above the
An aerial view of the Bridoux Salient, a prominent feature in the British frontline 1.6 kilometres east of Bois Grenier, British map reference 36.I.31. The road from Bois Grenier to the small village
