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From the Australian Front

From the Australian Front

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One of the Villages in the open beyond Bapaume.
Most of the trees throughout this country were cut down by the Germans before leaving.


The Hindenburg Line taken on April 11, 1917, and again on May 3.


Shrapnel-Burst over our Stretcher-Bearers.

A Trench Mortar in the Hindenburg Line.


The Advanced Ambulance Wagon during the Bullecourt Days.

The Winter in Northern Billets.
Even in the best trenches the mud was a problem.


The Division which broke through the Hindenburg Wire reviewed by Gen. Birdwood after the Fight.


An Australian Artillery Officer's Home on the Somme.

Gen Birdwood presenting Captain H. Murray, V.C., with the Ribbon of the D.S.O. to which he Won a Bar at Bullecourt. (Gen. Holmes in the background.)


How Rations to Troops should be Served.

How they Serve Themselves if Allowed to.


Overheard in a French Village.
The Boy: "Hello, Bully Beef!"


From a Christmas Letter.
"I was eatin' Christmas puddin' in the mud,
When a whizzbang 'it me collar wiv a thud,
An' I honestly expected that me bits 'ud be collected,
But my luck was in—the beggar was a dud."

"I say, cobber, got 'ny room in there for me an' another bloke?"

"When we had to thaw our boots before we could put them on our remarks were not pleasant to hear."


1. My Home in Dixie.
2. My Home with a Dixie.


Australians studying the large Contour Map which was made for the Troops to give them a good knowledge of the country around Messines over which they had to attack.


A Wagon rushing a road during the German shelling of our Batteries before Messines.


A German Shell bursting during the Messines Battle.


All that is left of the German Front Line at Messines.


A German Shell-burst during the Battle of Messines.

Battle of Messines: A Lorry-load of Australians watching a Burning Dump which had been hit by the German Shelling.


The Ridge at Messines: Scene of the Attack on June 7, 1917.

All that is left of Messines.

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