ANZAC Battlefields: The Western Front

After being withdrawn from Gallipoli, ANZAC troops dig into trench warfare along the Western Front in early 1916.

The ANZACs learn the horrors of industrialised warfare from dealing with gas attacks, tanks, machine guns and barbed wire.

In 1917, the ANZACs are involved in the seminal battles of Bullecourt, Ypres, Messines and Menin Road.

Walking the killing field of Passchendaele, where ANZAC battalions fought while artillery sank in liquid mud.

The German's launched the massive Operation Michael on an 80 kilometre front on March 21st 1918, the greatest offensive of the war. Includes stories of desperate defence and the crumbling of the Allied line.

As the Germans retreated towards the fortified Hindenburg Line they attempted a scorched earth policy, creating craters in roads and destroying bridges. Vigorous pursuit was necessary to prevent this.