September 3rd, 1918 Photos: MIKAN, IWM, & AWM.
MIKAN 3395395 Canadians looking at anti-tank rifle mounted on small truck. Advance East of Arras.
September, 1918 Soldiers are examining a Tankgewehr M1918, anti-tank rifle, mounted on a small cart.
MIKAN 3395396 Ammunition wagon on the Arras-Cambrai Road. Advance East of Arras. September, 1918
MIKAN 3395397 Ammunition boxes in village captured by Canadians. Advance East of Arras. September, 1918
MIKAN 3395398 Lorries taking shells up to the guns through Marquion. Advance East of Arras. September, 1918
Look closely...that is the original paint on the bricks in Sains-lès-Marquion, 16h36: 11th April 2017.
The white background had completely faded away, but not the lettering!
MIKAN 3395520 Two officers of the Canadians having a hurried meal outside a German dug-out. Advance East of Arras. September, 1918
MIKAN 3395611 A Canadian Engineer with his mule takes cover in a trench. Advance East of Arras. September, 1918
MIKAN 3395612 Two Canadian transport drivers with their horses in a captured German trench. Advance East of Arras. September, 1918.
MIKAN 3395613 Canadian Transport Driver with horses in captured trench. Advance East of Arras. September, 1918.
MIKAN 3395615 Canadian Machine Gunners establishing themselves in a captured Trench. Advance East of Arras. September, 1918. This shows a Canadian machine gun section setting up a Vickers machine-gun.
MIKAN 3395797 Attending to wounded Germans at advanced dressing station. September, 1916.
MIKAN 3395888 A Canadian Doctor rendering first aid during the advance. Advance East of Arras. September, 1918. Doctor renders first aid as German prisoners look on.
MIKAN 3395889 Field Dressing Station in village recently captured. Advance East of Arras. September, 1918. Photograph shows a busy scene at the Dressing station, surrounded by a heavily damaged village. Prisoners, stretcher-bearers and wounded. Note the portable field stove set up at right.
MIKAN 3395893 Busy scene at Canadian Advanced Dressing Station in the German line. Advance East of Arras. September, 1918 [Cambrai]. Scene is of a busy dressing station located in a cut, with a crowd of wounded, prisoners, and stretcher bearers moving into a cut full of vehicles and wagons.
© IWM (BOX 887-3305-205V-57C-1918) 57C P 19 20 Ytres
© IWM (Q 7032)
Troops of the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, bringing in a piece of elephant back iron as salvage. Near Lens, 3 September 1918.
© IWM (Q 7033)
An outpost sentry of the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, in Lens, 3 September 1918.
© IWM (Q 7034)
An outpost sentry of the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, in Lens, 3 September 1918.
© IWM (Q 7051)
Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line. Pronville, a village east of the Hindenburg Line, captured 3 September 1918.
© IWM (Q 7071)
View of the town from a British outpost in Lens, 3 September 1918.
© IWM (Q 7072)
View of the town from a British outpost in Lens, 3 September 1918.
© IWM (Q 7092)
Two soldiers of the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, sit beside a dump of trench mortar bombs. Near Lens. 3 September 1918.
© IWM (Q 11269)
A British soldier holds a magpie at the entrance to a captured German machine-gun position, Peronne, 3 September 1918.
© IWM (Q 11270)
A soldier, possibly from 5th Australian Division surveys a barricade erected by the Germans at the entrance to Peronne, following the capture of the town, 3 September 1918, during the Battle of Bapaume.
© IWM (Q 11271)
A soldier, probably from 5th Australian Division, darts across open ground amongst the ruins of Peronne following the capture of the town as part of the Battle of Bapaume, 3 September 1918.
© IWM (Q 11273)
A soldier, probably from 5th Australian Division, darts across open ground amongst the ruins of the Grande Place, Peronne, following the capture of the town as part of the Battle of Bapaume, 3 September 1918.
© IWM (Q 11325)
Mounted troops of the 13th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Army, near Peronne, 3rd September 1918.
Französische Artillerie feuert am Rande des Waldes vom Champien Aufnahme vom 3. September 1918
Lieutenant Bruno Lörzer of Fighter squadron 3, brought down 26 planes over the Arras battlefield on 3rd September 1918.
Lieutenant Lörzer won his 35th aerial victory.
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