The Hard Case: "No, I'm a machine-gunner."] [Illustration: Officer: "Why do you not salute?" Anzac: "Well, to tell you the truth, digger, we've cut it right out."] [Illustration: Remembrances? "What does that noise remind you of?" "'Ome on a Saturday night."] [Illustration: Shell- and Mine-torn Ground at Hill 60, Ypres.] [Illustration: The same: Very Extensive Defensive Works were undertaken by the Australian Troops at Ypres in 1916 during the short time within which they stayed there.] [Illustration: Australians Re-entering the Somme in the Autumn, 1916. Mud-splashed Gun-teams along the road to Montauban.] [Illustration: A Cook-house in Montauban.] [Illustration: The Field Cooker in a Winter Billet behind the Somme.] [Illustration: Fritz's Folly: Scene of a Winter Fight on the Somme.] [Illustration: The Somme Mud: In the Trenches.] [Illustration: Where the Mud was a Tragedy: The Carriage of the Wounded.] [Illustration: The First Immense Alleviation: Tramways.] [Illustration: A Second Alleviation: The Duckboards.] [Illustration: The Somme Mud: At the Water Point, Montauban.] [Illustration: A First Improvement in Trenches: A Dry Trench in the Front Line.] [Illustration: Flers: Held by the Australians all the Winter.] [Illustration: Factory Corner near Flers: A Notable Point during the Winter.] [Illustration: A Precious Consolation: Hot Coffee in Jam Tins at the Comfort Fund's Stall, Longueval. The two splendid men who are serving in this picture were both killed when the Town Hall at Bapaume was blown down by a delayed German mine.] [Illustration: The Winter Hospital: In the Chapel at Millencourt.] [Illustration: The Canteen: Behind the Somme.] [Illustration: All that is Left of Gueudecourt--the Pond and the Church.] [Illustration: Machine Gun Firing at an Aeroplane.] [Illustration: Martinpuich.] [Illustration: Optimism. "Well, thank God, at least there are no flies!"] [Illustration: Stiffness. 1st Anzac: "Blime, digger, we're stiff. Beer's all froze." 2nd Ditto: "Wonder if they'll sell it by the block."] [Illustration: A "Rum" Fellow But "Somme" Boy. John P. Davis A.I.F (53{rd} Bn.)] [Illustration: Across the Snow, Near Flers, Jan. 1917. The Duckboards.] [Illustration: The Butte De Warlencourt, March 23{rd} 1917. The Butte; When we were able to look back on it.] [Illustration: The Snow: Near Bazentin. The latter part of the winter was very bitter, with six weeks' continuous frost, but immensely preferable to the mud of the earlier months.] [Illustration: Australian Transport in the Snow.] [Illustration: A Game of Pitch-and-Toss amongst the Reserve Troops.] [Illustration: Spoiling the German Coal-dump in the Winter's No-Man's-Land.