Martinpuich.

Optimism.
"Well, thank God, at least there are no flies!"

Stiffness.
1st Anzac: "Blime, digger, we're stiff. Beer's all froze."
2nd Ditto: "Wonder if they'll sell it by the block."

A "Rum" Fellow But "Somme" Boy.
John P. Davis
A.I.F
(53^rd Bn.)

ACROSS THE SNOW, NEAR FLERS, JAN. 1917.
The Duckboards.

THE BUTTE DE WARLENCOURT, MARCH 23^RD 1917.
The Butte; When we were able to look back on it.

The Snow: Near Bazentin.
The latter part of the winter was very bitter, with six weeks' continuous frost, but immensely preferable to the mud of the earlier months.

Australian Transport in the Snow.

A Game of Pitch-and-Toss amongst the Reserve Troops.

Spoiling the German Coal-dump in the Winter's No-Man's-Land.
On February 24, 1917, the Germans were found to be evacuating their lines on the Somme. This photograph shows men getting coal from the old German railway dump, which all the Winter had been in No-Man's-Land before Le Sars. The Butte of Warlencourt appears in the background.

Engineers beginning on the Track across "The Maze," part of the old German Front Line which had been held all the Winter.

German Heavy Shell searching for Australian Batteries which had been hurriedly pushed forward to Eaucourt l'Abbaye.

Supports waiting in the Public Grounds at Bapaume— its old Fortress Moat—on the day on which they followed the Germans through the Town.

The Streets of Bapaume on the Day of its Occupation.
It had been blown up and burnt by the Germans.

A Band playing in Bapaume the Day after its Capture. The Town was still Burning.

Bapaume Town Hall.
A mine with delayed fuse was under the building at the time this photograph was taken. It blew up a few days later.

Australian Transport halted in Bapaume when the Streets had just been cleared.

One of the Villages which were taken after Sharp Fighting as the Advance began to approach Cambrai.

An Australian Battery coming into Position beyond Bapaume.

An Impression.

Bringing up Rations.