The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
View of a battery of four 8 inch Howitzers near Birr Crossroads, supporting the Australians fighting in the Ypres sector.
"A battery of 8" Howitzers in action near Birr Cross Roads". A hand-coloured print of a photograph taken by an Australian official photographer on 31 October 1917. This print was produced by Colarts S
View of Birr Crossroads, showing two 8 inch Howitzer guns supporting the Australians at Zonnebeke, in the Ypres sector. Owing to the marshy state of the country, the most accessible and least muddy po
A 'Collecting Post' for the wounded on the Menin Road, near Birr Cross Roads at Ypres, during the battle of 20 September 1917. A camouflaged battery of 6 inch howitzers including one South African gun
A view of Birr crossroads in the Ypres sector, in Belgium, the scene of many a heavy strafe by the enemy guns. The light railways were used to convey supplies and ammunition to the forward areas and s
View of 6 inch Howitzers in action near Westhoek, in the Ypres sector. Note the discarded wooden boxes in the left foreground and the large pile of shells on the centre foreground.
A view of the supply dumps along the Menin Road, in the Ypres sector, showing the traffic moving out from the direction of Ypres towards the forward zone. At left background is a battery of 6 inch gun
The whole scene behind our infantry is massed with guns and carpeted with shells. A battery of 8 in Howitzers (1st Australian Siege Battery), near Gordon House, in the Ypres Sector, with shells of an
