The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Near Grand Priel, France. 18 September 1918. Men of the 15th Battalion digging in on their second objective near Grand Priel, in the old British line at Ewe Post, during the attack on the fortified Hindenburg Outpost Line, near Le Verguier. This attack engaging the 1st and 4th Divisions in the centre of the whole onslaught, though made through heavy rains and mist, was considered by them to have been the `cleanest, cheapest, most decisive fight in the whole war', and at its conclusion on the evening of 18 September, the Australians had advanced over about three miles of country and were established on a ridge looking down upon the famous Hindenburg Main Defences. Identified foreground to background are: 7763 Private (Pte) A. D. Smith; 7790 Pte Samuel George Comollatti; unidentified.
The 45th Battalion digging in under a smoke barrage near Ascension Farm on the second objective in the attack made by the 1st and 4th Australian Divisions and British Divisions upon the old British tr
Near Catelet, France. 17 September 1918. Australian soldiers carrying a dummy tank, weighing about a quarter of a ton, which had been completed, with others, by the 4th Field Company of Australian Eng
A section of the battle ground over which troops of the 1st Australian Brigade attacked on 18 September 1918 as part of the first battle to take the Hindenburg Outpost System, including former British
A section of the battle ground over which troops of the 1st Australian Brigade attacked on 18 September 1918 as part of the first battle to take the Hindenburg Outpost System, including former British
Three unidentified Australian soldiers with their Vickers machine gun at an outpost of the 24th Machine Gun Company, near Vendelles, the night before the attack which culminated in the capture of the
The main line of the final objective in the Australian attack on Ascension Farm and Le Verguier. This photograph, taken on the morning of the attack, shows a section of the Hindenburg outpost system i
