The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Members of the 15th Battalion in one of the captured machine gun positions in Pear Trench at Hamel, from which the Germans did much deadly shooting in the morning during the attack on the village. Following the interruption of the barrage for a brief space, Pear Trench filled with the enemy, who caused many casualties to the attacking troops as they came over the hill on the skyline. Tanks smashed the machine gun positions and the Australians with the Americans met the Germans hand to hand. This is one half of a stereo image. The full stereo image is held at E02623A.
Members of the 15th Battalion in one of the captured machine gun positions in Pear Trench at Hamel, from which the Germans did much deadly shooting in the morning during the attack on the village. Fol
American and Australian dead on the battlefield at Hamel, in front of Vaire and Hamel Wood. In this encounter a battalion of Americans was distributed among the attacking Australian units and fought w
A view of Pear Trench and the slope over which the Australians and Americans advanced on the morning of 4 July 1918, in the battle of Hamel. The enemy machine gunner, seen dead in the centre, just beh
A dead German soldier lies in a bay in the communication trench leading up to Pear Trench near Hamel, the day following the battle in which the Australians of the 6th, 4th, and 11th Infantry Brigades
Looking towards Hamel along the communication trench (CT) running from the village to Pear Trench, over the fiercely contested ground won from the enemy in the Australian attack of 4 July 1918. The bo
Hamel Wood and Vaire Wood, from Pear Trench, looking along the sunken road, which was lined with enemy trench mortars and machine guns, and which constituted the first obstacle captured by the 15th Ba
