The 45th Battalion digging in under a smoke barrage near Ascension Farm on the second objective ...

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Accession Number E03247
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Hindenburg Outpost Line Area
Date made 18 September 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

The 45th Battalion digging in under a smoke barrage near Ascension Farm on the second objective in the attack made by the 1st and 4th Australian Divisions and British Divisions upon the old British trench lines near Hargicourt and the outpost line of the Hindenburg system. The Hindenburg Outpost Line (the third and final objective in this battle) was about a mile distant at this point. This fight was part of what is known by the British as the `Battle of Epehy', being a phase of the `Battles of the Hindenburg Line'. Identified are: Private R. J. Martin (fourth from the left), and Lance Corporal W. R. Thomson (fifth from the left).