The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A Hotchkiss Mk 1 light machine gun, manned by members of the 13th Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Company, in position for anti aircraft defence, at Nonne Bosschen, between Polygon and Glencorse Wood, in the Ypres Sector. On the sky line is a structure supposed to have previously been an anti tank gun position. An unknown soldier lies buried in the shell hole in the foreground identified by a wooden cross. The scene is typical of the devastation wrought during the momentous battles in the Ypres sector. Identified manning the gun, left to right, are: Sergeant Innes; Sapper Roberts (back); Sapper Arrowsmith (aiming gun); Lance Corporal McInnes.
Australian soldiers occupying a position at Clapham Junction, in the Ypres sector when the 1st Division with the 2nd Division in support, advanced over the enemy positions at Glencorse Wood, Nonne Bos
Three Australian machine gunners inspecting a German MG08 machine gun captured between Nonne Bosschen and Polygon Wood, in the Ypres sector, during the attack by Australian troops on 20 September 1917
A German concrete pillbox, between Nonne Bosschen and Polygon Wood, in the Ypres Sector, where fifteen German prisoners sheltered during the Australian attack. Identified, left to right: 550 Bombardie
A desolate scene on Westhoek Ridge, in the Ypres sector, looking towards Glencorse Wood and Nonne Bosschen. The view includes Polygon Wood on the extreme left and Clapham Junction on the extreme right
View of a German gun in a well sheltered gun pit between Westhoek and Nonne Bosschen, in the Ypres sector, captured by the Australians of the 1st Division, in the attack on 20 September 1917.
View of dead Germans around a heavily concreted pill box, between Nonne Bosschen and Polygon Wood, in the Ypres sector, the day following the Australian attack on 20 September 1917. The fire from thes
