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It's a four hour drive from Amsterdam to the Somme. We spent the weekend following the WWI Australian troops, from battle to battle. What we discovered was - the Australians won WWI. The old diggers were right. ================================== from Wiki In the First World War, on 24 April 1918, the small town of Villers-Bretonneux was the site of the world's first battle between two tank forces: three British Mark IVs against three German A7Vs. The Germans took the town, but that night and…

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100 years on from the battle of Villers-Bretonneux in France in World War I. A theatrical commemoration to the soldiers who played a part in this battle. #MelbourneFringe #MelbourneFringeFestival #Melbourne #EchoesofVillersBretonneux #WWI #VillersBretonneux #warhistory #militaryhistory #WorldWarI

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Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery & Australian Memorial Fouilloy Somme France Sir Edwin L. Lutyens (1869- 1944), Principal Architect George Hartley Goldsmith (1886/7-1967), Assistant Architect CWGC WW1 Cemetery & Memorial

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ID Number: E02318 Place made: France: Picardie, Somme, Villers-Bretonneux Informal portrait of 3133 Corporal James Coull, in charge, with dogs of No. 3 Messenger Dog Section, attached to the 4th Divisional Signal Company, in a railway cutting near Villers-Bretonneux while operating with 12th Brigade. Section comprised sixteen men and fifty messenger dogs. These dogs worked with fairly successful results, but were never solely relied on in sending messages. Left to right: War Dog 103 Nell, a…

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