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| IWM Cat Ref:HU 100710 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 8614 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 8637 |
British Official Panaromas
DIRECTION OF VIEW: 125 degrees North West by North to East
FIELD OF VIEW: Courcellette chimney to High Wood |
First Battle of Bapaume (Operation Michael). Troops of the Machine Gun Corps passing through Aveluy, 25 March 1918. Man nearest the camera is Sergeant F. Cooper MM, originally of No. 190 Machine Gun Company, Royal Marine Light Infantry (63rd Royal Naval Division), attached to the MGC. |
French refugees with furniture-piled farmcarts moving along the road at Bouzincourt, 26 March 1918. Note two camouflaged 13-pounder anti-aircraft guns on the lorry mountings in the background. |
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| IWM Cat Ref:Q 60643 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 10952 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 49749 |
| Western Front Panorama. Thiepval to Bouzincourt. |
7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers which had suffered severely near Mesnil during the Battle of the Ancre (5-7 May), returning from the front line. 9 May 1918. |
Air Photo, Queant, 57c. D. 7. |
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| IWM Cat Ref:Q 8282 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 7047 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 8278 |
| German military horse Wagons abandoned at Queant. (Recaptured 2 September 1918) |
Battle of the Drocourt- Queant Line. Ruined buildings in Queant, 7 September 1918. This village was abandoned by the Germans during the night of 2-3 September following the successful advance of the British 52nd, 57th and 63rd Divisions. |
Ruins of the Church of Queant, 8 September 1918. Queant was one of the strongest German fortresses and was the junction of the Hindenburg and Wotan Lines. Recaptured 2 September 1918. |
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| IWM Cat Ref:Q 7053 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 7049 |
IWM Cat Ref:CO 3392 |
| German barricade across the main street of Queant, 7 September 1918. |
Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line. Queant, to the NW, of which was the junction of the Hindenburg and Wotan Lines. 7 September 1918. |
Battle Scenes: German barbed wire defences at Queant in the Hindenburg Line. |
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| IWM Cat Ref:Q 7067 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 45489 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 58384 |
| Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line. Ruins of Inchy, captured by the 63rd Division on 3rd September. (13 September 1918). |
Tank barricades in Inchy. The Cambrai area. |
The Hindenburg Line before Pronville, 13 September 1918. |
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| IWM Cat Ref:Q 7069 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 7070 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 58513 |
| Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line. German ammunition horse-limbers smashed by shell fire near Pronville, 13 September 1918. |
Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line. German 7.7 cm (770 mm) FK 16 gun captured at Pronville and occasionally used by British gunners, 13 September 1918. |
Map of The Canal Du Nord, Moeuvres, near Cambrai. Dated 3rd september 1918 |
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| IWM Cat Ref:Q 6328 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 58398 |
IWM Cat Ref:Q 9513 |
| Battle of the Canal du Nord. A bridge over the Canal destroyed by the Germans, near Moeuvres, 28th September 1918. |
Captured ground near Moeuvres, September 1918. In the distance bursting German shells and Bourlon Wood can be seen. |
Battle of Cambrai. Prisoners taken by 63rd (Royal Naval) Division being marched in near Noyelles, 8 October 1918. |
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