The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
One of the two guns taken by the 25th Battalion on the morning of the big attack of 4 October 1917, at Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres sector. Situated near Zonnebeke, between Broodseinde and Molenaarelsthoek, the gun was captured by B Company of the 25th Battalion, in a position on the line of our first objective, at the left side of the Menin Road, down which the gun fired with considerable effect in the early stages of the attack. It was kept in action by the enemy, almost until the moment of its capture, when smoke was even then issuing from the muzzle. The gun is a 15cm lange schwere Feldhaubitze 13 L/17.
The square, Messines, before the war. During the early stages of the war, the village of Messines was reduced to ruins by shell fire. Situated on the Messines Ridge, it was a position of considerable
The 2nd Australian Pioneers constructing a mule track through Remus Wood to Molenaarelsthoek at left, in the Ypres sector, the day following the attack of the 3rd Division at Broodseinde Ridge.
c. 1920. A captured German 7.5cm Model 97 Field gun (left) and a Lange 15cm Kannone (probably Krupp) field gun (centre), with other guns captured during the First World War. The limber in the foregrou
Message map relating to the First World War service of 4272 Sergeant William Edward Peach, 7th Battalion. This trench map, presumably used by Peach himself, depicts the area of front line held by I An
The street leading to the church at Messines, as it was before the First World War. During the early stages of the war, the village of Messines was reduced to ruins by shell fire. Situated on the Mess
A view of village life on the Rue de la Pierre at Messines, Belgium, as it was before the First World War. During the early stages of the war, the village of Messines was reduced to ruins by shell fir
