Australians on the Western Front: Daring night-time raid brutal but ‘brilliant’

By Michael Grealy
May 4 2018 - 12:00pm
RESPITE: Meal time at 5th Australian Machine Gun Battalion on Hill 104 at Villers-Bretonneux. The position was critical for the defence of Allied rail routes to the west at Amiens. Picture: AWM E02296
RESPITE: Meal time at 5th Australian Machine Gun Battalion on Hill 104 at Villers-Bretonneux. The position was critical for the defence of Allied rail routes to the west at Amiens. Picture: AWM E02296

At dawn on April 24, 1918, German troops captured the French village of Villers-Bretonneux.

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