Friday, 6th September 1918 - Canada's Hundred Days - 30

Entry posted by ejwalshe 6 September , 2018

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5th Canadian Divisional Artillery

14th Brigade Canadian Divisional Artillery

61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

Lieutenant Abner Gladstone Virtue - 61st Fld Bty

55th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

© IWM (Q 7054)
A gun caterpillar-tractor hauling a lorry out of a shell-hole. Noreuil, 6 September 1918 (Captured by 3rd Division on 2 September).

© IWM (Q 7055)
Troops of the 52nd (Lowland) Division with captured German MG 08/15 machine guns. Queant, 6 September 1918.

© IWM (Q 7057)
German signs (O.U.-Orts-Unterkunft-Billets and Hindenburg Schlucht - Hindenburg Ravine) in Queant, 6 September 1918.

© IWM (Q 7061)
German 21 cm (210 mm) Mörser 16 heavy howitzer captured near Saint-Leger, 6 September 1918. Note scribling on the barrel noting the 281st Brigade of the Royal Field
Artillery.

© IWM (Q 7062)
German 21 cm (210 mm) Mörser 16 heavy howitzer captured near Saint-Leger, 6 September 1918. There is a scribling on the barrel of the howitzer noting the 281st Brigade
of the Royal Field Artillery (not visible from this angle).

© IWM (Q 7063)
Battle of Drocourt-Queant Line. German ammunition lorry destroyed by shell fire. Note a lorry of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the background. Near Queant, 6
September 1918.

© IWM (Q 7064)
Battle of Drocourt-Queant Line. A convoy of British Maudslay 3-ton lorries parked up alongside the wreckage of German motor transport destroyed by shell fire during
Third Army's attack on 2 September 1918. Note a lorry of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the background. Near Queant, 6 September 1918.

© IWM (BOX 294-688-103GJ-36N-1918) Plotting reference 36N 22 29. Key feature Fromelles, 6th September, 1918.
Dark speck lower left corner is the 'Hitler Bunker'.
The first wood to the left of Fromelles, where the road enters the corner of the wood, is where amateur historian Lambis Englezos found 250 Australian soldiers.

Where amateur historian Lambis Englezos found 250 Australian soldiers (elongated red area), now buried in the new Pheasant Wood Cemetery (red rectangle), which is
located just on the lower-left outskirts of Fromelles today. These men are buried approximately 300 meters from where the Germans had originally interred them.
'Hitler Farm' is on the road to the lower-right of Fromelles, just before turning the corner into town.

© IWM (Q 11285)
One of the officers who acted as guide to the Dominion journalists' party, seen at Etaples, 6 September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11302)
Dominion journalists inspect the kennels at the Central Depot of the Messenger Dog Service at Etaples, 6 September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11303)
Dominion journalists inspect the kennels at the Central Depot of the Messenger Dog Service at Etaples, 6 September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11304)
Dominion journalists are shown a demonstration at the Central Depot of the Messenger Dog Service at Etaples, 6 September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11305)
Dominion journalists are shown a demonstration at Central Depot of the Messenger Dog Service at Etaples, 6 September 1918. As part of the training, explosions were
arranged close to the feeding dogs.

© IWM (Q 11306)
Dominion journalists are shown a demonstration at Central Depot of the Messenger Dog Service at Etaples, 6 September 1918. As part of the training, explosions were
arranged close to the feeding dogs.

© IWM (Q 11307)
Dominion journalists watching a demonstration at the Central Depot of the Messenger Dog Service at Etaples, 6 September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11308)
Dominion journalists are shown a demonstration at Central Depot of the Messenger Dog Service at Etaples, 6 September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11309)
Dominion journalists are shown a demonstration at Central Depot of the Messenger Dog Service at Etaples, 6 September 1918. As part of the training, explosions were
arranged close to the feeding dogs.

© IWM (Q 11310)
Dominion journalists inspect the kennels at the Central Depot of the Messenger Dog Service at Etaples, 6 September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11311)
Dominion journalists inspect the kennels at the Central Depot of the Messenger Dog Service at Etaples, 6 September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11312)
Dominion journalists are shown a demonstration at Central Depot of the Messenger Dog Service at Etaples, 6 September 1918.

© IWM (Q 23891)
Kaiser Wilhelm II in conversation with General Pavlo Skoropadskyi, the Hetman of Ukraine (in the background), at Wilhelmshohe Castle in Kassel, 6 September 1918.