was the battle of amiens the first battle with tanks

Then they saw a series of muddy trenches littered with the waste of war. Like to copy this image? Please click here firstĬasualty clearing station, Menin Road, Belgium (AWM E711) The sound was loud enough to make their ears ring, and became their companion for the next three years. As they got closer, they could feel the earth shake, and hear the constant “crump crump” of artillery shells. When the ANZACs arrived at the Western Front, the first thing they saw were the lines of wounded soldiers being taken to the rear. The maps have been prepared as Adobe Acrobat™ files, each ~200kb, and designed to print on two A4 pages. NOTE This symbol means that a detailed map is available. The Light Horsemen were sent to the Middle East where they took part in several battles, the most spectacular of which was the mounted charge at Beersheeba. But Gallipoli was not the last time the ANZACs fought the Turks. So after the Gallipoli veterans were rested in Egypt, and had been strengthened by the ‘fair dinkums’ from Australia, they were sent to France to fight Germany. The British High Command needed troops urgently. But they were never safe from the explosive artillery shells that rained down on the front line soldiers every few seconds for days at a time. Both sides had dug trenches, sometimes only metres apart, as their only protection from the murderous gun fire. As at Gallipoli, machine-gun fire caused terrible casualties on the Western Front.

To imagine this, think of a ditch deep enough to stand in zigzagging its way alongside the Hume Highway from Melbourne to Canberra.

The Western Front was the name the Germans gave to a series of trenches that ran 700 kilometres from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. All Queensland schools were sent additional free copies of this book as part of the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland's 1998 ANZAC Education Pack. Please note that all Australian schools received a copy of ‘Don’t forget me, cobber!’ as part of the 1997 Their Service - Our Heritage ANZAC kit.

The following has been adapted from the book ‘Don't forget me, cobber!’ by Matt Anderson

Was the battle of amiens the first battle with tanks