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Photograph E01511 First World War, 1914-1918View of a German concrete gum emplacement, wrecked by British shell fire, at Messines, when the remains of the gun blown up by the enemy were still inside the shelter.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two unidentified troopers inspecting the remains of a German concrete machine gun emplacement by the side of the road between Bray and Peronne.
View of a German concrete gum emplacement, wrecked by British shell fire, at Messines, when the remains of the gun blown up by the enemy were still inside the shelter.

Two unidentified Australian soldiers examining a German machine gun emplacement near 'Kit and Kat' track on Westhoek Ridge, in the Ypres Sector. This emplacement was partially destroyed by a direct hi

Roye, France. c. 1917. British Army soldiers inspecting the remains of a huge German Army gun emplacement. (Donor British Official Photograph L266)

A water point built upon a ferro-concrete machine gun post situated alongside the road leading from Peronne to Mont St Quentin.

Somme Area, France. c. 1917. A former German Army machine gun emplacement on the original line at Roye being inspected by a group of French Army soldiers. The emplacement was built of concrete four fe

An unidentified Australian soldier looking through the loophole of a captured machine gun emplacement at Kit and Kat, in the Ypres sector. Although solidly built of concrete slabs, supported by heavy
