The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Villers-Bretonneux, France. 21 May 1918. Looking towards Monument Wood, on the right skyline, from Villers-Bretonneux. The view was photographed through the observation hole in a house by the Railway Bridge when the enemy held the country beyond the white line above the telegraph posts.
Improvised British sign made of unfinished tin with words 'BRIDGE MINED' stencilled in white paint. There are three nail holes along the top edge of the sign. This sign indicated that the railway b
Looking towards Villers-Bretonneux through the remains of the Orchard. This position, together with Monument Wood, 1,800 yards due south, was undoubtedly the most heavily shelled of any position in th
Looking over a portion of Villers-Bretonneux, in France, towards the flat land south of the village and in front of Monument Wood. The house on the left was used by the 13th Battalion as Headquarters.
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
View of Villers-Bretonneux (left) and Abbey Wood, taken from the railway bridge looking south. This panorama is one of a series taken by the Australian War Records Section with a 'Cirkut' camera. Th
A view from the roof of the White Chateau, when the Australians held the white chalk line of trenches as their front line, and the enemy trenches were in front of Monument Wood (on the left) and the i
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
