The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The opening of the barrage of the battle of Hamel. As soon as the barrage opened at 3.10 a.m. the enemy sent up brilliantly coloured flares, of which only the white ones show in the photograph. For a week or more before the battle, the Australian guns had shelled the Huns with gas at exactly this hour, a plan to deceive them and make them put on their gas helmets, but this time the guns fired smoke instead of gas and the assaulting infantry at once had the Hun at a disadvantage.
The second stage of the barrage in the battle of Hamel, showing how the flares died out after the first shock of the attack on 3.10 a.m. had passed and the smoke hid the shell bursts. 'The smoke barra
Dawn on 4 July 1918, showing the Australian barrage falling on the village of Hamel, during the attack by the Australian and American troops. The blurred appearance is due to the smoke which hung over
The third stage of the barrage in the battle of Hamel, showing the heavy concentration of fire on the right and German flares going up in the centre. 'Hamel was really a big battle reduced to a small
Members of the Australian Light Horse practising for a gas attack, at Sheikh Nuran. The soldiers laying on the ground are wearing PH helmets to protect them from the gas.
Depicts a scene in the devasted village of Templeux-le-Guerard, with strings of American, Australian and German 'walking wounded' from the Battle of the Hindenburg Line, making their way to a casualty
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
