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From the Australian Front

From the Australian Front

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In the Peaceful Line.

No-Man's-Land in the Peaceful Line.
It was across exactly such a spot, but wider, that the Australians charged when first they entered heavy fighting in France before Fromelles, on July 19, 1916.


Pozières.
Just after midnight on July 23, 1916, those Australians who had been brought South and put into the Great Battle of the Somme, attacked and took this village. A few walls and rafters were then remaining.

The Chalk-pit past which they approached.


"Gibraltar."
A reinforced concrete entrance to a cellar and German dug-out. The surrounding house had long been blown away.

One of the old 5·9 Howitzers taken in the First Assault.


Sausage Valley: The Busiest Thoroughfare in the Australian World in those Days.

A Famous Staff at Breakfast in Sausage Valley.


Fatigue Parties in the Moonlight.


Ammunition Wagons galloping past the Long Guns in Sausage Valley.


A Gun of the R.A.G.A. near Fricourt.


The Bombardment of Pozières by the Germans in the First Days of August, 1916.


Pozières Windmill: The Summit of the Somme.
Captured on August 4 after two heavy fights.

Centre Way, near Pozières Church.


One of the "O.G." Lines near Pozières Windmill.
They were blotted out here by bombardment.


The Main Street of Pozières from Centreway Trench.


The Church at Pozières.


The Cemetery at Pozières.


Machine-gunners coming out past Casualty Corner: Contalmaison in the distance.


A Victorian Brigade straight out of Pozières passing another Victorian Brigade on its way in.


Mouquet Farm: The Next Stage in the Pozières Fight.
Looking towards Pozières, which is about a mile away beyond the crest.>


Australians in the Dressing-station at Becourt Château during the early days of Pozières.


The Shell-holes of Pozières Village during the following Winter.

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