The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Members of the 22nd Battalion, AIF, taking a meal in the trenches on Westhoek Ridge on the night before the opening Australian attack on the Third Battle of Ypres on 20 September 1917. Identified, left to right: Mundie; Gilbert; Peach; Robinson; and two unidentified soldiers. Their trench has been reinforced with interwoven twigs.
View of the old trenches on the Westhoek Ridge, between Hannebeek and Nonne Bosschen, in the Ypres sector, which were used by the enemy as a first line trench prior to the advance of the 1st Australia
A communication trench previously used by the Australian troops at Westhoek Ridge, in the Ypres section, during the attack of the 2nd Division further forward, near Passchendaele Ridge. Two unidentifi
Broodseinde Ridge, Belgium. 5 October 1917. The 24th Battalion in the front line trenches near Flinte Farm, on Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres Sector. These trenches were quickly dug when the position
Australian reserves making their way to the front line, and pack mules returning along the track which lead from Idiot Corner to Westhoek Ridge, in the Ypres sector. Bellevarde Ridge can be seen in th
Message map relating to the First World War service of 4272 Sergeant William Edward Peach, 7th Battalion. This trench map, presumably used and annotated by Peach himself, is annotated with the date 20
Members of B Company 3rd Battalion, in the 'jumping off' trench at Clapham Junction, from which the Australian troops of the 1st Division commenced their opening attack in the Third Battle of Ypres. I
