The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Unidentified soldiers in part of the old British line of 21 March 1918, near Cologne Farm, which was the front line for the attack made by the Americans on 29 September 1918. In the spring of 1918 it was thought that the initial bombardment of the enemy on 21 March practically demolished all front line trenches, making it impossible to hold them. Several thousand yards of the front line in the Villeret sector was as equally well preserved as the section shown.
Unidentified soldiers in a support line trench near Cologne Farm, from which a fine 'indirect' machine gun barrage was put up by the Americans during the fighting on 29 September 1918. Quennemont Farm
View of a demolished shelter at Anzac Ridge, in the Ypres sector. The vicinity was the scene of heavy artillery bombardment some days earlier.
After the third battle of Ypres in September 1917 the Australians were put in to hold the Messines Wytschaete sector and to prepare defences against the expected German spring offensive. The German of
Australian supports marching along the Villeret-Hargicourt Road, on their way to the front line near Bellicourt, passing an Australian Battery of 18 pounders operating in that sector. The village of B
The house in which the last Germans held out after the counter attack on Beaumetz, during the fighting from 21 to 25 March 1917. It was demolished by a concentration of artillery fire upon it.
Portrait of an unidentified French villager and his wife, who lived within 800 yards of the trenches in a sector comparatively free of bombardment.
