The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A German Casualty Clearing Station and cemetery which, when seized by the Australians on 9 August 1918, was found to have patients still in its wards. The area in which it was situated was finally captured after desperate fighting by troops of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Divisions in a general attack on the morning of 11 August, Lihons itself was taken by assault of the 2nd and 3rd Brigades, and held against two heavily pressed counter attacks. Note the group of unidentified soldiers on the pile of earth in the centre. This is the centre image in a three part panorama. See E02928P for the combined image.
A German Casualty Clearing Station and cemetery which, when seized by the Australians on 9 August 1918, was found to have patients still in its wards. The area in which it was situated was finally cap
A German Casualty Clearing Station and cemetery which, when seized by the Australians on 9 August 1918, was found to have patients still in its wards. The area in which it was situated was finally cap
A German Casualty Clearing Station and cemetery which, when seized by the Australians on 9 August 1918, was found to have patients still in its wards. The area in which it was situated was finally cap
A German Casualty Clearing Station and cemetery which, when seized by the Australians on 9 August 1918, was found to have patients still in its wards. The area in which it was situated was finally cap
Two unidentified soldiers inspecting some of the German guns captured by the Australian troops in the great offensive which commenced on 8 August 1918. The enemy, on 11 August, resisted heavily on the
A Stokes mortar gun in action on the railway embankment near the Dernacourt Casualty Clearing Station, the scene of desperate fighting by the 12th and 13th Brigades against four divisions of the enemy
The Railway Bridge across the Somme Canal, which, before it was destroyed by the retreating Germans, connected Bray and Froissy, two villages captured on 23 August 1918, by the 3rd and 2nd Divisions
Trench near Crepy Wood during the attack upon Lihons. The 10th Battalion on 10 August 1918 in the Old Somme trench system near Lihons; Crepy Wood in the background, and some of the enemy field guns wh
