The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The entanglements between Lormisset Farm and Mushroom Quarry in the Masnieres-Beaurevoir system, behind the main Hindenburg Line. This system was well wired, but with trenches only a few inches deep. A few hundred yards to the rear of this line of wire were many underground anti-tank gun and machine gun posts in communications by buried telephone cable with a convenient and inconspicuous observation post. The road in the right background leads to Gouy.
One of many anti-tank and machine gun posts on the ridge in front of Beaurevoir, after the capture of that area, which formed the rear system of the Hindenburg Defences. In a number of cases these pos
A shallow trench near Mushroom Quarry, in the Masnieres Beaurevoir Line. It was in this area on 3 October that the 2nd Division experienced stiff fighting in overcoming the resistance of the enemy.
View of the sunken road south of Lormisset Farm, near Beaurevoir, which formed the junction between the English and Australian troops attacking against the Beaurevoir Line between 3 and 5 October 1918
View of the Beaurevoir Line, taken from near Grandcourt on the day on which the attack by the 7th Australian Infantry Brigade in this area commenced. The Australian troops advanced in the morning ast
View of the Beaurevoir Line, taken from near Grandcourt on the day on which the attack by the 7th Australian Infantry Brigade in this area commenced. The Australian troops advanced in the morning ast
View of the Beaurevoir Line, taken from near Grandcourt on the day on which the attack by the 7th Australian Infantry Brigade in this area commenced. The Australian troops advanced in the morning ast
