The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A shell wrecked farm house near Hannebeek, in the Ypres sector, where severe fighting took place on 20 September 1917. Seen here is the very wet and muddy condition of the marshlands, over which the infantry had to fight in their attack on Nonne Bosschen.
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
View of the boggy ground between Hannebeek and Nonne Bosschen in the Ypres sector over which the Australians of the 1st Division advanced to their second objective. The dugouts shown here were later u
Three Australian machine gunners inspecting a German MG08 machine gun captured between Nonne Bosschen and Polygon Wood, in the Ypres sector, during the attack by Australian troops on 20 September 1917
View of a German gun in a well sheltered gun pit between Westhoek and Nonne Bosschen, in the Ypres sector, captured by the Australians of the 1st Division, in the attack on 20 September 1917.
View of a captured German stronghold in the artillery torn ground at Nonne Bosschen, in the Ypres sector, where the Germans made unsuccessful attempts to stem the Australian advance in that area twent
View of dead Germans around a heavily concreted pill box, between Nonne Bosschen and Polygon Wood, in the Ypres sector, the day following the Australian attack on 20 September 1917. The fire from thes
