The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 captured the village and the important positions surrounding it. From Pear Trench particularly the attacking infantry were heavily fired upon, but the suddenness of the attack overwhelmed the enemy. Many Germans were killed as they were clambering out of the trenches. Another dead soldier lies near the top of the trench wearing a red cross/medical armband.
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
The dugouts along the sunken road near Pear Trench, which after their capture were used as advanced Headquarters by the 15th Battalion, following the Australian attack at Hamel, on the morning of 4 Ju
A portion of the sunken road near Pear Trench at Hamel, just after its capture on 4 July 1918. The raised earthwork in the rear of the photograph was used as protection against bombs. The German dead
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
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
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
