The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Americans and Australians visiting a park of captured guns at Tincourt. Following the operation at Hamel, on 4 July, when there was a sprinkling of American troops in the attacking Australian Brigades, the great battles of the Hindenburg Line resulted in a deepening of the comradeship between the Australians and the Americans. The two Americans are sitting on the barrel of a gun which has 18/9/18 painted on it, presumably its date of capture.
The burning village of Hamel (centre) and the smoke enveloped Hamel Wood, during their attack and capture by the Australian troops, on 4 July 1918. The line of trees running from left to right borders
The shelling of Hamel during the morning of the attack and capture of it by the Australians, with whom were associated a battalion of Americans.
Smoke rising from a burning dump, fired by the retreating Germans, at Tincourt. On this date the Germans were falling back on the defences of the Hindenburg system, where a few days later the enemy re
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
Americans and Australians at Tincourt, using captured guns as stands to view an American cinematograph operator, who was rehearsing a party of the soldiers for a film production of the recent operatio
