On February 24, 1917, the Germans were found to be evacuating their lines on the Somme. This photograph shows men getting coal from the old German railway dump, which all the Winter had been in No-Man's-Land before Le Sars. The Butte of Warlencourt appears in the background.] [Illustration: Engineers beginning on the Track across "The Maze," part of the old German Front Line which had been held all the Winter.] [Illustration: German Heavy Shell searching for Australian Batteries which had been hurriedly pushed forward to Eaucourt l'Abbaye.] [Illustration: Supports waiting in the Public Grounds at Bapaume--its old Fortress Moat--on the day on which they followed the Germans through the Town.] [Illustration: The Streets of Bapaume on the Day of its Occupation. It had been blown up and burnt by the Germans.] [Illustration: A Band playing in Bapaume the Day after its Capture. The Town was still Burning.] [Illustration: Bapaume Town Hall. A mine with delayed fuse was under the building at the time this photograph was taken. It blew up a few days later.] [Illustration: Australian Transport halted in Bapaume when the Streets had just been cleared.] [Illustration: One of the Villages which were taken after Sharp Fighting as the Advance began to approach Cambrai.] [Illustration: An Australian Battery coming into Position beyond Bapaume.] [Illustration: An Impression.] [Illustration: Bringing up Rations.] [Illustration: One of the Villages in the open beyond Bapaume. Most of the trees throughout this country were cut down by the Germans before leaving.] [Illustration: The Hindenburg Line taken on April 11, 1917, and again on May 3.] [Illustration: Shrapnel-Burst over our Stretcher-Bearers.] [Illustration: A Trench Mortar in the Hindenburg Line.] [Illustration: The Advanced Ambulance Wagon during the Bullecourt Days.] [Illustration: The Winter in Northern Billets. Even in the best trenches the mud was a problem.] [Illustration: The Division which broke through the Hindenburg Wire reviewed by Gen. Birdwood after the Fight.] [Illustration: An Australian Artillery Officer's Home on the Somme.] [Illustration: Gen Birdwood presenting Captain H. Murray, V.C., with the Ribbon of the D.S.O. to which he Won a Bar at Bullecourt. (Gen. Holmes in the background.)] [Illustration: How Rations to Troops _should_ be Served.] [Illustration: How they Serve _Themselves_ if Allowed to.] [Illustration: Overheard in a French Village. The Boy: "Hello, Bully Beef!"] [Illustration: From a Christmas Letter. "I was eatin' Christmas puddin' in the mud, When a whizzbang 'it me collar wiv a thud, An' I honestly expected that me bits 'ud be collected, But my luck was in--the beggar was a dud."] [Illustration: "I say, cobber, got 'ny room in there for me an' another bloke?"] [Illustration: "When we had to thaw our boots before we could put them on our remarks were not pleasant to hear."] [Illustration: 1. My Home in Dixie.]