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5th Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

14th Brigade Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

Lt Virtue

 

55th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

© IWM (Q 7001)
Battle of Albert. 
The Royal Field Artillery guns and limbers passing a mine crater in the road in front of Warlencourt, 27 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7002)
Royal Artillery gunners sorting the mail. 
Near Grevillers, 27 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7003)
Battle of Albert. Wounded of the Royal Naval Division, in their jumping-off position near Warlencourt for the attack of 25-28 August
1918 (27 August), waiting to be taken back.

 

© IWM (Q 7004)
Battle of Albert. Captured German heavy mortar and shells at Grevillers (captured on 24 August), 27 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9269)
Battle of Amiens. 
A dump of German artillery guns and howitzers captured by the British Fourth Army, 27 August 1318. 
One in foreground was captured by the Australian Corps (note a message scribbled on the barrel - "Captured by Anzac Corps. What about
the Tanks?"). 
Those in the foreground are all 21 cm Mörser 16 heavy howitzers.

 

© IWM (Q 9270)
Battle of Amiens. 
Two nurses checking a 21 cm Mörser 16 heavy howitzer at a dump of German artillery guns and howitzers captured by the British Fourth
Army, 27 August 1318.

 

© IWM (Q 9271)
A crowd of German prisoners taken by the British Fourth Army in the Battle of Amiens. 
Near Abbeville, 27 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9272)
A crowd of German prisoners taken by the British Fourth Army in the Battle of Amiens. 
Near Abbeville, 27 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9273)
Dump of German heavy artillery guns and howitzers (15 cm guns and a 21 cm Mörser 16 heavy howitzer) captured in the Battle of Amiens
by the British Fourth Army, 27 August 1918. Those in foreground were captured by the 2nd Canadian Division and the B Company, 3rd
Battalion, Tank Corps.

 

© IWM (Q 11257)
British soldiers, probably from the Army Service Corps, survey the ruins of Bethune, 27 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11258)
Horses from units of 37th Division being watered at Bihucourt, 27 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11260)
A British soldier poses with a heavy shell with a chalked message 'A Present for Jerry' at a shell dump, 27 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11261)
A British soldier poses with a heavy shell with a chalked message 'A Present for Jerry' at a shell dump, 27 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78696)
German prisoners taking back their trench mortars under British escort near La Boisselle, 27 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78697)
Royal Engineers reconstructing the railway line from Albert to Arras, 27 August 1918. Photograph taken near Albert.

 

© IWM (Q 78698)
German guns and material captured by the British and Canadians in the Amiens sector, 27 August 1918. 
Note a French family on the left. 
The 21 cm Mörser 16 heavy mortar in the foreground was captured by the 15th Platoon of the Canadian 49th Battalion.

 

© IWM (Q 80083)
Royal Engineers remaking the road from to Arras at Albert, 27 August 1918

 

 

© IWM (Q 108229)
A general view of the Butte de Warlencourt burial mound, 27 August 1918.
In the Franco-Prussian War the mound had been tunnelled and during the Battle of the Somme the Germans fortified the butte with
machine-gun posts and encircled by many belts of barbed wire.

 

 

© IWM (BOX 200-2412-53B-28S-1918) Plotting reference 28S 4 5 10 11. Key feature Conservatoire botanique national, Bailleul, 27 August
1918.

 

 

© IWM (BOX 335-10-4B-36A-1918) Plotting reference 36A F 16 17. Key feature Les Ecuries des Hauts Bonheurs, Nooteboom, 27 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (BOX 373-180-21HAB-36A-1918) Plotting reference 36A R 25. Key feature Paradis, 27 August 1918.