The 5th Pioneer Battalion was an Australian infantry and light engineer unit raised for service during the First World War as part of the all volunteer Australian Imperial Force. Formed in Egypt in Ma
5th Pioneers around Picardie, September 1918
The 10th Reinforcements of the 5th Pioneers at Port Melbourne prior to embarkation, October 1917.
Group portrait of members of the Australian 5th Pioneer Battalion taken outside the chateau at Cerisy-Buleux, France, November 1918.
Attack at Fromelles
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The operation was conducted by XI Corps of the First Army with the 61st Division and the 5th Australian Division of the Australian Imperial Force against the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division, supported b
Panorama of Fromelles, 1914.
Troops holding a well constructed breastwork near Fleurbaix, June 1916; one of the troops has a periscope rifle.
A German strongpoint in the Fromelles salient, July 1916
Troops of the 53rd Australian Battalion, only three of the men survived the battle, all wounded