Western Front, AIF, Australians at War, Australian military memorials, WW1,
Military Cemetery, Messines, Ypres, Menin Gate, Hill 60, Polygon Wood, Tyne Cot,
Fromelles, Bullecourt, Pozieres, Mouquet Farm, Sailly-le Sac, Mont St Quentin,
Bellenglise, Peronne, Viller-Bretonneux, Anzac, Lijssenthoek, Lochnagar
Australian military memorials on the Western Front
Selection of photographs taken by Mark Abercromby during trips to the Western
Front in
May 1998, March 2000 and March 2003.
Notes on my trips to the Western Front can be found at Tom Morgan's Hellfire
Corner Website
Please choose the area you wish to view
- Messines, Belgium where my grandfather was wounded during the
Battle for Messine Ridge
- Menin Gate, Ieper, Belgium (formerly spelt Ypres)
- Hill 60, Zwarte-Leen, Belgium (1st Australian Tunnelling Company)
- Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke (5th Div, A.I.F.)
- Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Belgium (more Australians are
buried here than in any other cemetery)
- Fromelles, France: VC Corner Australian Cemetery (first
Australian attack in France)
- Bullecourt, France (two Battles of Bullecourt)
- Pozieres, France (1st Div, A.I.F., Windmill site)
- Mouquet Farm, Pozieres, France
- Sailly-le Sec, near Albert (3rd Div, A.I.F.)
- Mont St Quentin, near Peronne, France (2nd Div, A.I.F.)
- Bellenglise, near St Quentin, France (4th Div, A.I.F.)
- Peronne, France
- Viller-Bretonneux, France (Australian National Memorial)
- le Hamel - Australian Memorial Park
- Anzac Cemetery, Sailly-sur-la-Lys
- Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge (second largest
behind Tyne Cot)
- Lochnagar Crater, La Boisselle (Largest crater on the Western
Front)
- "Yorkshire Trench" at Boezinge, restored by the Belgium Diggers
- Langemarck German Cemetry