The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A sick parade at Eaucourt L'Abbaye, during the advance on the Somme in the winter of 1917. 'Trench feet' was the chief complaint. Note the soldier with his legs enclosed in sandbags as a temporary protection against mud and damp.
Men of the 10th Battalion enjoying a hot meal in the trenches, in the line at Eaucourt l'Abbaye, during the Somme advance. To carry the hot stew and tea, petrol tins and hot food containers were used.
An Australian 18 pounder artillery gun being pushed up on a light gauge railway track near Eaucourt L'Abbaye, the day following the commencement of the German retirement on the Somme, in February 1917
Australian machine gunners constructing a new machine gun position west of Eaucourt l'Abbaye during the advance on the Somme. Left to right: 286B Lance Corporal R M McCallum; Lieutenant (Lt) E M Roach
A German shell bursting in the vicinity of 10th Battalion Headquarters, near Eaucourt l'Abbaye, France on 27 February 1917.
Signal engineers of the 3rd Brigade wiring a headquarters near Eaucourt L'Abbaye. They are seen here laying telephone lines in one of the newly captured sandbagged trenches, renamed Pioneer Trench.
A shell burst close to one of our batteries at Eaucourt l'Abbaye, France, where our artillery had just previously advanced to new positions, in support of the advancing Australians, on 28 February 191