August 22nd Photos

Entry posted by ejwalshe 22 August , 2018

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© IWM (Q 6995)
Advance in Flanders.
Troops of the Royal Garrison Artillery moving 60 pounder guns forward through St. Venant, 22 August 1918.

© IWM (Q 6996)
Advance in Flanders.
Troops of the Royal Garrison Artillery moving 60 pounder guns forward through St. Venant, 22 August 1918.

© IWM (Q 6997)
Advance in Flanders.
Railway bridge over the Lys Canal at Merville blown up by the Germans on their retirement, 19 August (22 August).

© IWM (Q 7301)
Battle of Albert. Mark V (Female) tanks of the 4th Battalion, Tank Corps, passing through Meaulte on the day of its capture by the 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (12th
Division), 22 August 1918.

© IWM (Q 7302)
Battle of Amiens.
Mark V (Female) tanks of the 4th Battalion, Tank Corps, in Meaulte soon after its capture by the 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (12th Division), 22 August 1918.

© IWM (Q 11210)
A lightly wounded British soldier of the 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, with German prisoners carrying a casualty on a stretcher through the ruins of Albert, 22 August 1918.

© IWM (Q 11211)
Stretcher bearers bringing a wounded man on a wheeled stretcher to an advanced dressing station in a wrecked building in Albert, 22 August 1918, following the village's capture
by 18th Division at the start of the Hundred Days Offensive.

© IWM (Q 11212)
Men of the 8th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment and Royal Army Medical Corps stretcher bearers resting in a ditch in Albert, 22 August 1918, following the village's capture by
18th Division at the start of the Hundred Days Offensive.

© IWM (Q 11347)
Horse ready for discharge to a remount depot from No. 10 Veterinary Hospital, Neufchatel, 22nd August 1918.

© IWM (Q 11348)
Horses ready for discharge to a remount depot from No. 10 Veterinary Hospital, Neufchatel, 22nd August 1918.

© IWM (Q 11350)
Earth walls built up between the open sheds at No. 3 Convalescent Horse Depot, Neufchatel as a protection against aerial bombs, 22nd August 1918.

© IWM (Q 11352)
Horses in a Kraal on sandy soil at No. 3 Convalescent Horse Depot, Neufchatel, 22nd August 1918.
Note the earth wall built up in front of the open shed as an air-raid precaution.

© IWM (Q 11514)
View of the Kraals and open sheds at No. 3 Convalescent Horse Depot, Neufchatel-Hardelot, 22 August 1918.
Note earth walls in front of open sheds as a precaution against air-raids

© IWM (Q 11515)
One of the three blocks at No. 2 Convalescent Horse Depot at Dannes, showing Kraals, open stabling and exercising track and the sandy soil, 22 August 1918.

© IWM (Q 11516)
One of the three blocks at No. 2 Convalescent Horse Depot at Dannes, showing Kraals, open stabling and exercising track and the sandy soil, 22 August 1918.

© IWM (Q 11520)
View of the Kraals and open sheds at No. 3 Convalescent Horse Depot, Neufchatel-Hardelot, 22 August 1918.
Note earth walls in front of open sheds as a precaution against air-raids.

© IWM (Q 11521)
No. 10 Veterinary Hospital at Neufchatel-Hardelot, 22 August 1918.
Note the harvest ready to be collected from the field in the foreground.

© IWM (Q 23591)
Carcass Economiser Detachment of the Army Veterinary Corps.
Soldiers working at the tanks for obtaining fat from dead horses and boiling down bones.
No. 10 Veterinary Hospital at Neufchatel-Hardelot, 22 August 1918

© IWM (Q 23592)
Carcass Economiser Detachment of the Army Veterinary Corps.
Soldiers obtaining the byproducts from dead horses.
No. 10 Veterinary Hospital at Neufchatel-Hardelot, 22 August 1918

© IWM (Q 23608)
Carcass Economiser Detachment of the Army Veterinary Corps.
Soldiers obtaining fat from dead horses and converting flesh into dried meat.
No. 10 Veterinary Hospital at Neufchatel-Hardelot, 22 August 1918

H954
Mk A Whippet tanks advancing to the attack along a road near Achiet-le-Petit, France, World War I.
Photographed 22 August 1918 by an unknown photographer.

H955
A German shell bursting in the distance over open ground near the New Zealand Rifle Brigade support line near Achiet Le Petit in France during World War I.
Photograph taken 22 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

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New Zealand troops occupying shell hole positions on slightly higher ground watch German shells bursting farther away during World War I in France. Mostly only the New
Zealanders' heads and shoulders are visible. Photograph taken near Achiet-le-Petit 22 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

H959
A New Zealand Rifle Brigade platoon sheltering in the lea of a bank while pausing during their advance near Achiet-le-Petit in France during World War I.
Some soldiers fill their water bottles and another drinks from his.
Photograph taken 22 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

H960
A New Zealand soldier inspects an enemy machine gun post abandoned by the Germans in their rapid retreat.
The machine gun nearby is still on the belt.
Photograph taken Puisieux, France on 22 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

Private A R Hallett

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A sign erected at Puisieux, by the 3rd New Zealand Rifle Brigade, directing passing troops to the scene of their advance, on 22 August 1918. The sign pointing left reads, 'To
Hebuterne Gommecourt', ...
Unknown Australian Official Photographer

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A German sniper killed in the advance towards the Crucifix at the Calvaire Cross Roads, near Bray, where the 9th Brigade experienced heavy fighting on 22 August 1918. The
Crucifix marked the approximate objective at this point of the Brigade's attack.

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The Quary on the Bray Corbie Road, which was used as Headquarters of the 34th Battalion and an Advanced Dressing Station during the attack by the 9th Infantry Brigade on Bray,
on the morning of 22 August 1918.

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The Quary on the Bray Corbie Road, which was used as Headquarters of the 34th Battalion and an Advanced Dressing Station during the attack by the 9th Infantry Brigade on Bray,
on the morning of 22 August 1918.

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German prisoners, taken in the capture of the Cross Roads, at Calvaire, near Bray, by the 9th Australian Infantry Brigade, on 22 August 1918, burying their dead before leaving
the battle ground.

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