Troops of the 1st Division passing through the 15th Infantry Brigade near Harbonnieres, to take ...

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Accession Number E02847
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original negative other
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Amiens Harbonnieres Area, Harbonnieres
Date made 9 August 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Troops of the 1st Division passing through the 15th Infantry Brigade near Harbonnieres, to take over the newly captured front lines on the night before the attack on Lyons and just after a tank had cleared the way for the 15th Brigade to advance past the line of low bushes, seen on the right, in which machine guns of Germans held up the infantry. General Elliot had been wounded by a snipers bullet that morning during the attack. The infantry came in artillery formation but went into extended order just after passing the camera. The bank running to the left is the railway line to Harbonnieres. In the centre, background are tanks returning from attack. Map Ref. (1:40,000) 62d.W24.b.central.