The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
No man's land and the Mound near the railway at Monument Wood. The mound is the only prominent feature of the landscape, and was used by the enemy as an observation post. It was taken by the enemy in his attack on Villers-Bretonneux, on 4 April, and it was not until 17 July that it was retaken by the Australians in the capture of Monument Wood by the 7th Infantry Brigade. On that occasion two companies of the 25th and 26th Battalions seized the mound after a fierce fight, in which the Hun (German) garrison stood up with the bayonet and were all killed and died fighting.
An abandoned German cooker in no man's land between Monument Wood and Villers-Bretonneux. It was left by the enemy when the counter attack by the 13th and 15th Brigades recaptured Villers-Bretonneux o
This mound, which stood on the far side of Polygon Wood, was taken by the 5th Division in the Battle of that name on 26 September, despite heavy difficulties caused by the driving in of the line immed
View of the woods and 'no man's land' at Broodseinde Ridge in the Ypres Sector, over which the Germans attacked a few minutes before our advance opened on the morning of 4 October 1917. The Australian
A derelict tank (right) behind the Australian wire, in front of Monument Wood, and situated in the German lines. It was occupied by the enemy as a machine gun post.
A German cooker smashed by a shell and abandoned by the enemy, near Monument Wood and Villers-Bretonneux, during the counter attack of the 13th and 15th Brigades at Villers-Bretonneux, on the night of
Monument Wood, France. 11 July 1918. Australian and American soldiers in a trench examining a German tank trap, filled with powerful explosive, and a periscope of a type much used by the enemy at that
