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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

 

MIKAN 3194494 
Canadians constructing a bridge across Canal du Nord. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918

 

MIKAN 3383177 
Sorting mail at an advanced Field Post Office. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918

 

MIKAN 3383178 
Canadian mail being loaded in Lorries. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918.

 

MIKAN 3383180 
The A.D.P.S. [Assistant Director of Postal Services] at a Canadian Brigade Field Post Office. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918

 

MIKAN 3383181 
Bringing up mail from a dug-out. 
September, 1918.

 

MIKAN 3396821 
A little Japanese, one of many who joined a certain Canadian Battalion, shaving outside his dug-out. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918. 
(Comment:  I do not write these annotations!)

 

MIKAN 3396931 
Band of the 27th Battalion. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918.

 

MIKAN 3397944 
Panorama, Collection of Field Guns, machine guns, trench mortars, etc., captured by Canadians. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918 
Officers are examining a wide range of captured German artillery pieces, shells, and shell casings.

 

MIKAN 3397945
Panorama. 
Collection of Field Guns, machine-guns, trench mortars, etc., captured by Canadians. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918 This depicts a captured Gun park, with a variety of German artillery on display.

 

© IWM (Q 7049)
Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line. 
Queant, to the NW, of which was the junction of the Hindenburg and Wotan Lines. 
7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7052)
Mametz, 7 September 1918, showing memorial. 
(7th Division).

 

© IWM (Q 7053)
German barricade across the main street of Queant, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7294)
Column of the British motor transport passing through the ruins of Ecoust-St. Mein, 7 September 1918. 
The village was retaken at the end of August.

 

© IWM (Q 7295)
The ruins of Croisilles, which were retaken on 28 August 1918 by the 56th Division. 
7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (BOX 312-406-21HAB-36T-1918) Plotting reference 36T 17 23. Key feature Fromelles, Pheasant Wood and mass graves.
Wow.  I have been looking for this photo for a couple of years now, so that's a big WOW!
We saw this area yesterday in two aerial photographs, and I was so disappointed by the resolution,
I was beginning to think Lambis had examined the high-quality original IWM photos.
Now, I am fairly certain this is the photo which led Lambis Engelzos to conclude there was a mass-burial, in fact,
two mass burial pits of 250 men by Pheasant Wood (Bois de faisan) outside Fromelles in 2002.
Those two elongated blobs by the forest tweaked his curiosity - he found images before and after the burials, matching the period when
the Germans buried these men, and further corroborated the visual evidence with German war diaries.
Along the way, he was presented with many hurdles and obstacles, most in the form of government.
After many years, he was allowed a preliminary dig, which finally led to the first new CWGC cemetery being created in over 50 years -
Pheasant Wood Cemetery.

 

© IWM (Q 9449)
Brigadier General Reginald John Kentish and staff of the 166th Brigade, 55th Division, Bethune, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9450)
Brigadier General Reginald John Kentish and staff of the 166th Brigade, 55th Division. Bethune, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9451)
Brigadier General Reginald John Kentish and staff of the 166th Brigade, 55th Division. Bethune, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11277)
Sir Douglas Haig, General Officer Commanding British Expeditionary Force, talking to Dominion journalists at the Chateau de
Beaurepaire, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11286)
General Henry Horne, General Officer Commanding First Army), converses with Dominion journalists at First Army Headquarters at
Ranchicourt, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 49843)
Ruined buildings in a corner of the Place de la Hotel de Ville and the Douai Road in Bapaume, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 69966)
French heavy artillery passing through Chauny, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78736)
Ruined street at Bapaume, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78737) 
Ruined street at Bapaume, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78738)
Ruined Le Grande Rue at Bapaume, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78739)
Church in ruins at Bapaume, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 78740)
Ruined Le Grande Rue at Bapaume, 7 September 1918.

 

© IWM (E(AUS) 3325)
Leisure and entertainment at the Front: The band of the 21 Australian Battalion rehearse in the middle of a ruined farmyard,
surrounded by debris, Cappy, France.

 

44th Wing of the Royal Air Force, taken at Camp Borden on September 7th, 1918.