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5th Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

14th Brigade Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

Lt Virtue

 

60th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery - Gunner Bertram Cox

 

 

© IWM (Q 7006)
Battle of the Scarpe. 
Capture of the Greenland Hill by the 51st Division. 
Daylight patrol of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods. 
North-east of Roeux, 29th August 1918. 
Serving out bombs.

 

© IWM (Q 7007)
Battle of the Scarpe. 
Capture of the Greenland Hill by the 51st Division. 
Daylight patrol of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods. 
North-east of Roeux, 29 August 1918. 
Troops leaving their trench.

 

© IWM (Q 7008)
Battle of the Scarpe. 
Capture of the Greenland Hill by the 51st Division. 
Daylight patrol of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods. 
North-east of Roeux, 29 August 1918. 
Troops approaching the German line.

 

© IWM (Q 7009)
Battle of the Scarpe. Capture of the Greenland Hill by the 51st Division. 
Daylight patrol of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods. 
North-east of Roeux, 29 August 1918. 
Troops crossing an old trench in the No Man's Land.

 

© IWM (Q 7010)
Battle of the Scarpe. Capture of the Greenland Hill by the 51st Division. 
Daylight patrol of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods. North-east of Roeux, 29
August 1918. 
Troops approaching the German trench from a sunken road.

 

© IWM (Q 7011)
Battle of the Scarpe. Capture of the Greenland Hill by the 51st Division. 
Daylight patrol of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods. 
North-east of Roeux, 29 August 1918. 
Troops firing into a dug-out in a deserted German trench to dislodge any remaining Germans.

 

© IWM (Q 7012)
Battle of the Scarpe. Capture of the Greenland Hill by the 51st Division. 
Daylight patrol of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods. 
North-east of Roeux, 29 August 1918. 
Troops firing into a dug-out in a deserted German trench to dislodge any remaining Germans.

 

© IWM (Q 7013)
Battle of the Scarpe. 
Capture of the Greenland Hill by the 51st Division. 
Daylight patrol of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods. North-east of Roeux, 29
August 1918. 
Troops firing into a dug-out in a deserted German trench to dislodge any remaining Germans.

 

© IWM (Q 7014)
Battle of the Scarpe. Capture of the Greenland Hill by the 51st Division. 
Stretcher-bearers of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders asleep. Near Roeux, 29 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7015)
Battle of the Scarpe. Ruins of Fampoux, the eastern outskirts of which were cleared of the enemy by the 51st Division, 29 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7037)
Battle of the Scarpe. A tank attached to the 51st Division embedded in the Scarpe marshes. Near Fampoux, 29 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9970)
Major John Simon RAF inspecting a Handley Page 0/400 heavy bomber of No. 207 Squadron at Ligescourt, 29 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9971)
Officers of No. 207 Squadron RAF, at Ligescourt, 29 August 1918. 
In front of them, on a trolley, are the largest and smallest aerial bombs and behind them the long fuselage and two swivel gun
mountings in the rear gunner's cockpit of a Handley-Page Bomber.

 

© IWM (Q 10376)
Air mechanics of No. 207 Squadron RAF moving a big bomb by rail-trolley to load it on to a night bombing aeroplane. 
Ligescourt, 29 August 1918. The caption on the bomb reads: "A little hell pie from the RAF.

 

© IWM (Q 11502)
Second Battle of the Somme. Battery of 8-inch howitzers (Royal Garrison Artillery) in action on the roadside at St. Leger. 
Note dust rising from road as result of concussion of discharge, 29 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 12104)
A Clayton tractor towing a Handley Page 0/400 bomber of No. 207 Squadron at Ligescourt Aerodrome, 29 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 12105)
A Clayton tractor towing a Handley Page O/400 bomber, with its wings folded, of No. 207 Squadron at Ligescourt Aerodrome, 29 August
1918.

 

© IWM (Q 12107)
A Clayton tractor towing a Handley Page O/400 bomber of No. 207 Squadron at Ligescourt Aerodrome, 29 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 57009)
American troops manning a Chauchat 1915 model machine gun in a trench near Amphersbach, 29 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 61323)
French horse transport entering the ruined village of Carrepuis, 29 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 61236)
Ruined church and churchyard at Champien (Somme), 29 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 61324)
The main street of the village of Laucourt showing the complete destruction, 29 August 1918. 
Traces of old communication trenches are seen among the ruins.

 

© IWM (Q 69945)
French Renault FT-17 tanks moving to the support of French troops at Valpries Farm near Juvigny, 29 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78699)
Royal Artillery officers by a captured German 21 cm Mörser 16 heavy howitzer near Longueau, 29 August 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 80021)
Park of German artillery (captured by the British in the Amiens sector) at Longueau, 29 August 1918. 
Note a 88 mm anti-aircraft gun in the background.

 

© IWM (Q 80022)
British troops examining a 88 mm anti-aircraft gun (captured by the British in the Amiens sector) at Longueau, 29 August 1918. 
Note the 21 cm Mörser 16 in the background, marked as captured by the 6th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force.

 

© IWM (Q 80023)
British and Australian troops examining 150 mm artillery guns (captured by the British in the Amiens sector) at Longueau, 29 August
1918.

 

© IWM (HU 109603)
Private George Albert Streat 14812. 
Unit: 10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force. 
Death: 29 August 1918 Western Front
Youngest son of William and Rachel Streat. Native of Victoria, Australia. 
CWGC h as age at death unknown.

 

© IWM (BOX 98-23-4B-27X-1918) Plotting reference 27X 16 17. Key feature Meteren

 

© IWM (BOX 335-36-4B-36A-1918) Plotting reference 36A F 3 4 9 10. Key feature Boulangerie Pâtisserie Demandrille, Outtersteene

 

 

H971
A general view of Bapaume taken within an hour of New Zealand troops entering the town. 
Looks down a cobbled street. 
Shows the huge amount of destruction to its buildings. 
The town's name is visible on the nearest building on the right. 
Photograph taken 29 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

 

H972
A distant view of New Zealand troops advancing on foot over open ground towards the French town of Bapaume which can be seen in the
background. 
Photograph taken between 27 and 29 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

 

H975
New Zealand soldiers searching the ruins of the Sugar Factory in Bapaume, a place of strong resistance in the Battle of Bapaume during
World War I. 
Photograph taken 29 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

 

H977
A general view of the French town of Bapaume taken within an hour of New Zealand troops entering it. 
Shows the huge amount of destruction caused during the heavy fighting there in World War I. 
Photograph taken 29 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

 

H981
A group portrait of New Zealand Riflemen, one of the first through Bapaume, standing in the doorway of a ruined house on the outskirts
of the town. 
Photograph taken 29 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

 

H983
A Wellington Regiment waiting in a trench, during the World War I Battle of Bapaume, before entering the town. 
View from behind the soldiers looking across a field towards Bapaume. 
Photograph taken 29 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

 

H986
A wooden German artillery observation post among trees on high ground overlooking Bapaume, after the town's capture in the Battle of
Bapaume. 
A New Zealand soldier looks at the wide view from the top of the post and another soldier looks over the ruined town from the foot of
it. 
Photograph taken 29 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

 

H994
A view of Bapaume taken on the day of its capture. Shows two soldiers walking down a street past completely ruined buildings. 
The sign 'Bapaume' is prominent on the pitted wall, on the left. 
Photograph taken 29 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.