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Comment:  The narrative is oddly devoid of any reference to the Western Front. To counter this, observe the official war despatches of Monday, 9th September 1918,
according to reports of the Wolff Telegr. Bureau, Volume 8, National Publishing House, Berlin (1918)...

 

Local fighting north of the Ploegsteert Forest and La Bassée Canal.  North of Armentières the enemy attacked again; we rejected him and took prisoners.  South of the
Péronne-Cambrai road, the enemy continued their assault by deploying stronger forces against the Gouzeaucourt - Epéhy line north of Templeux; they failed with heavy
losses for the opponent.  Our forerunners yesterday denied superior enemies the advance across St. Simon and the Crozat Canal.  Exploratory battles between Oise and
Ailette.  Between Ailette and Aisne the enemy broke out after several unsuccessful partial attacks towards evening; he was bloody rejected all over the front, partly
in close combat and by counterattacks. 

 

Partial attacks failed between Aisne and Vesle, while in Champagne partial attempts by the opponent failed.  From an English squadron, which advanced to the attack on
Mannheim, 5 aircraft were shot down.  In August, 565 enemy aircraft were shot down on the German fronts, 62 of them by our anti-aircraft guns, and 53 capture balloons. 
Of these, 251 aircraft are in our possession.  The rest has obviously crashed beyond the enemy lines.  We lost 143 planes and 86 captive balloons during the fight.

Imperial War Museum and Alexander Turnbull Library photos captured Monday, 9th September 1918.
MIKAN images captured September 1918.
 

5th Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

14th Brigade Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

Lieutenant Abner Gladstone Virtue - 61st Fld Bty

 

Gunner Jack Stanislaus McTague

 

MIKAN 3397938 Transport driver with a load of captured machine guns and trench mortars. 
Advance East of Arras, September, 1918
The transport drivers wagons are loaded with captured German machine gun components, and he is towing a light trench mortar.

 

MIKAN 3397939 Battered German gun near Buissy. 
Advance East of Arras. September, 1918. 
A soldier is examining a damaged 7.7cm FK 96 German Field Gun.

 

MIKAN 3397942 Canadians examining two German machine guns mounted on small trucks. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918 Canadians are examining two carts with MG08/15 German machine guns mounted on them.

 

MIKAN 3397952 Model reproduction of German lines N.W. of Lens (36.C.N.1) September, 1918.

 

MIKAN 3403397 Lt.-Col. G. Ross, A.D.P.S. at grave of Lt. W.K. Clarke, the son of an old friend. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918.

 

MIKAN 3403398 The A.D.P.S. [Assistant Director of Postal Services] at grave of Sergt. W. Britton. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918

 

MIKAN 3405032 Officers and N.C.O. Instructors for the Canadian Syren Party at Witley Camp, September 1918.

MIKAN 3405377 Canadian Ammunition Column passing through recently captured village. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918.

 

MIKAN 3405397 Canadian Cavalry going forward passing German wounded. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918.

 

MIKAN 3405399 Cavalry passing through country captured by Canadians earlier in the day. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918.

 

MIKAN 3405427 Canadian Engineers returning from the line. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918.

 

MIKAN 3405428 Engineers sterilizing water pumped from a dirty stream. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918.

 

MIKAN 3405429 Canadian Engineers building a corduroy road. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918.

 

MIKAN 3405430 Canadian Engineers building a corduroy road through a captured village. 
Advance East of Arras. 
September, 1918.

 

E03317 
Unidentified members of the 5th Australian Pioneers going to their work in artillery formation, 9 September 1918.

 

© IWM (BOX 307-418-21HAB-36S-1918) Plotting reference: 36S 17. Key feature: Lorgie

 

© IWM (Q 45363)
General Pavlo Skoropadskyi, the Hetman of Ukraine, as a guest at the German General Headquarters at Spa with Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and General Erich
Ludendorff, 9 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 49848)
Panorama of German first line trenches at Bois d'Eparges before attack by the American 26th Division, 9 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 52187)
General Pavlo Skoropadskyi, the Hetman of Ukraine, as a guest at the German General Headquarters at Spa with Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and General Erich
Ludendorff, 9 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 52201)
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg with General Pavlo Skoropadskyi, the Hetman of Ukraine, in Spa railway station conducting the latter to his saloon coach on the
conclusion of his visit to the German General Headquarters, 9 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 70044)
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg greeting General Pavlo Skoropadskyi, the Hetman of Ukraine, during the conference at the German General Headquarters in Spa, 9
September 1918. General Groebe is in the background.