The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 scale. There was massed artillery; there were new mobile tanks; there was a most detailed scheme of aeroplane cooperation from the drowning by bomb dropping of the noise of the approaching tanks to the carriage forward by air of machine gun ammunition after the battle'.
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
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
A battle day photograph taken during the attack by the Australian and American troops at Hamel. Hamel Wood is seen in the background on the left. Two parachutes can be seen just previously dropped fro
Depicts a group of spectators, including Australian, New Zealand and British officers, on Mount Kemmel, a few miles from Ypres, watching an artillery barrage at night. The sky is lit up by German flar
Depicts a group of spectators, including Australian, New Zealand and British officers, on Mount Kemmel, a few miles from Ypres, watching an artillery barrage at night. The sky is lit up by German flar
Depicts a group of spectators, including Australian, New Zealand and British officers, on Mount Kemmel, a few miles from Ypres, watching an artillery barrage at night. The sky is lit up by German flar