Saturday, 31 August 1918 - Canada's Hundred Days - 24
Library and Archives Canada
5th Canadian Divisional Artillery
14th Brigade Canadian Divisional Artillery
61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery
Lt Virtue
55th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery
© IWM (BOX 773-416-18JF-51B-1918) Plotting reference 51B Q 14. Key feature Ecourt St Quentin
© IWM (BOX 764-395-57MB-51B-1918) Plotting reference 51B M 29. Key feature Mercatel
© IWM (Q 9283)
A German pigeon loft at the Brieftauben Station No. 708 at Roye, part of the booty of the French First Army which recaptured Roye on
27 August 1918. Photograph taken on 31 August 1918.
© IWM (Q 9284)
French and British (Royal Engineers) troops by a German pigeon loft at the Brieftauben Station No. 708 at Roye, part of the booty of
the French First Army which recaptured Roye on 27 August 1918. Note a German war grave in the foreground. Photograph taken on 31
August 1918.
© IWM (Q 9285)
Cheerful Royal Engineer with folding wicker boxes used by Germans to take carrier pigeons to the trenches, 31 August 1918. Photograph
taken at the German Brieftauben Station No. 708 at Roye, part of the booty of the French First Army which recaptured Roye on 27 August
1918.
© IWM (Q 9286)
Royal Engineers at a German pigeon loft at the Brieftauben Station No. 708 at Roye, part of the booty of the French First Army which
recaptured Roye on 27 August 1918. Photograph taken on 31 August 1918.
© IWM (Q 9287)
A homing pigeon at a German pigeon loft at the Brieftauben Station No. 708 at Roye, part of the booty of the French First Army which
recaptured Roye on 27 August 1918. Photograph taken on 31 August 1918.
© IWM (Q 9288)
Royal Engineer working on a gas proof homing pigeon box, enabling messages to be attached to the pigeon without removing it from the
box. Photograph taken at a German pigeon loft at the Brieftauben Station No. 708 at Roye, part of the booty of the French First Army
which recaptured Roye on 27 August 1918.
© IWM (Q 23924)
German A7V tanks, probably in Fremicourt. The one on the right is named "Hagen", the other is very likely "Schnuck".
© IWM (Q 37344)
German A7V tanks, probably in Fremicourt. The one on the right is named "Hagen", the other is very likely "Schnuck".
© IWM (E (AUS) 3094)
German camouflage on a captured railway near Chuignes in France on August 31st 1918. Australian transport can be seen passing along
the Chuignes-Dompiere Road in the background. The area show was taken by Australian troops of the 1st Division a week before.
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