The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A scene in , showing the houses wilfully destroyed by the Germans during their withdrawal on the Somme. The village was later made the battle headquarters of the 7th Infantry Brigade in the capture of Lagnicourt on 25 March 1917.
Depicts a ruined building, quite possibly at a railway station. Debris litters the ground surrounding the building. The Somme area sustained heavy damage during the First World War as it was the scene
The crater in Lagnicourt (beyond Vaulx-Vraucourt and near the Hindenberg line), the scene some months earlier of heavy hand to hand fighting. Lagnicourt was captured by the 7th Australian Infantry Bri
Depicts the destruction of the 43rd Battery on the morning of the German attack at Lagnicourt. Gun carriages are visible in the foreground, behind one is a soldier on all fours, perhaps wounded from b
Scene of an attack by the Germans on the Australians on 15 April 1917, with part of a trench in the foreground and the ruined village of Lagnicourt in the background. The Germans penetrated the Austr
A distant view of Lagnicourt from the west, showing the position where the Germans raided the Australian batteries on 15 April 1917, in their attack through Lagnicourt.
Two unidentified soldiers stand amid the shattered buildings in the French village of Lagnicourt, which was captured by the Australians in late March 1917 as the Germans withdrew towards the Hindenbur
