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61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

Lieutenant Abner Gladstone Virtue - 61st Fld Bty

 

The text of the German peace note to Wilson
Official war despatches according to reports of the Wolff Telegr. Bureau   
Volume 8 
National Publishing House, Berlin (1918)

 

E3832
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons

 

Eine amerikanische MG-Stellung nahe Exermont
Aufnahme vom 4. Oktober 1918

 

© IWM (Q 9381)
Battle of the St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). British and Australian gunners watering their horses and and German dead being
collected near Bellicourt, 4th October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9382)
Battle of St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Wire in front of the Hindenburg Line, near Bellicourt, 4th October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9384)
Battle of the St Quentin Canal (Saint Quentin). A chamber in the tunnel of the St Quentin Canal, used as a cook-house, penetrated by
an Allied shell killing a number of men, near Bellicourt, 4th October 1918. This corpse factory had been installed in the tunnel. See
"Diary of King's Visit" under date 2.12.18.

 

© IWM (Q 9520)
Battle of St. Quentin Canal. The ruins of Bellicourt village captured by the 30th American Infantry Division on 29 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9521)
Battle of St. Quentin Canal. Ruins of Bellenlisse captured by the 1/6 Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, 46th Division on 29
September 1918. The village formed part of the Hindenburg Line. 4 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9523)
Battle of St. Quentin Canal. Ruins of Bellicourt, captured by the 30th American Division on 29 September 1918. 4 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9524)
Battle of St. Quentin Canal. Soldiers of the 30th American Infantry Division and 15th Australian Brigade (5th Australian Division) at
the southern entrance of the St. Quentin Canal Tunnel at Riqueval near Bellicourt, captured by 30th American Division on 29th
September 1918. 4 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9525)
Battle of the St Quentin Canal. Shelters on the banks of the canal where is was crossed by the 137th Brigade, 46th Division on 29th
September 1918. 4 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9526)
Battle of St. Quentin Canal. Horses going to be watered. This ground was covered by the 30th American and 5th Australian Divisions
during the battle at 29 September 1918. Near Bellicourt, 4 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9610)
Mules tethered in the abandoned trenches of the Hindenburg Line near Bellenglise, 4 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9815)
A former German brick and concrete pillbox in the Hindenburg Line in use as an Royal Engineers signal office. Amongst the material
outside the entrance is a wicker-basket used for carrying homing-pigeons. Photograph taken near Bellenglise, 4 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11782)
Unidentified British official cameraman in the ruins of Lens, 4 October 1918. Note a shell burst in distance.
Possibly McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)

 

© IWM (Q 11783)
Unidentified British official cameraman in the ruins of Lens, 4 October 1918.
Possibly McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)

 

© IWM (Q 11784)
General view in the ruins of Lens, 4 October 1918. The town was abandoned by Germans on 2 October 1918 and taken over by the British
58th Division.

 

© IWM (Q 11785)
General view in the ruins of Lens, 4 October 1918. The town was abandoned by Germans on 2 October 1918 and taken over by the British
58th Division.

 

© IWM (Q 11786)
General view in the ruins of the Grande Place of Lens, showing the heap made by the remains of the Church of St. Leger, 4 October
1918. The town was abandoned by Germans on 2 October 1918 and taken over by the British 58th Division.

 

© IWM (Q 11787)
A shell bursting in the ruins of Lens, 4 October 1918. The town was abandoned by Germans on 2 October 1918 and taken over by the
British 58th Division.

 

© IWM (Q 11788)
General view in the ruins of Lens, 4 October 1918. The town was abandoned by Germans on 2 October 1918 and taken over by the British
58th Division.

 

© IWM (Q 11789)
A pre-war notice bearing the name of the town in the ruins of Lens, 4 October 1918. The town was abandoned by Germans on 2 October
1918 and taken over by the British 58th Division.

 

© IWM (Q 11790)
General view in the ruins of Lens, 4 October 1918. The town was abandoned by Germans on 2 October 1918 and taken over by the British
58th Division.

 

© IWM (Q 11791)
General view in the ruins of Lens, 4 October 1918. The town was abandoned by Germans on 2 October 1918 and taken over by the British
58th Division.

 

© IWM (Q 11792)
View of the ruins of La Bassee from a German observation post, 4 October 1918. The town was taken over by the 2/5th Battalion,
Lancashire Fusiliers (55th Division) previous afternoon.

 

© IWM (Q 11793)
Bridge across the Canal at La Bassee, blown up before German retirement, 4 October 1918. The town was taken over by the 2/5th
Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (55th Division) previous afternoon.

 

© IWM (Q 11794)
Royal Engineers of the 58th Division clearing a road in the ruins of Lens, 4 October 1918. The town was abandoned by Germans on 2
October 1918 and taken over by the British 58th Division.

 

© IWM (Q 11795)
A mine crater in a street in La Bassee, camouflaged by brushwood, as found on 3 October 1918, when the 2/5the Battalion, Lancashire
Fusiliers (55th Division) entered the ruins.