Battle traffic at Grévillers. 25 August 1918.
Mark V Tanks and infantry going forward following the Capture of Grévillers by the New Zealand Division.
Grévillers, is a village in the Department of the Pas de Calais, 3 kilometres west of Bapaume.
Grévillers was occupied by Commonwealth troops on 14 March 1917 and in April and May, the 3rd, 29th and 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations were posted nearby. They began the cemetery and continued to use it until March 1918, when Grévillers was lost to the German during their great advance.
On the following 24 August, the New Zealand Division recaptured Grévillers and in September, the 34th, 49th and 56th Casualty Clearing Stations came to the village and used the cemetery again.
Photographer - Aitken T K (2nd Lt)
Mark V Tanks and infantry going forward following the Capture of Grévillers by the New Zealand Division.
Grévillers, is a village in the Department of the Pas de Calais, 3 kilometres west of Bapaume.
Grévillers was occupied by Commonwealth troops on 14 March 1917 and in April and May, the 3rd, 29th and 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations were posted nearby. They began the cemetery and continued to use it until March 1918, when Grévillers was lost to the German during their great advance.
On the following 24 August, the New Zealand Division recaptured Grévillers and in September, the 34th, 49th and 56th Casualty Clearing Stations came to the village and used the cemetery again.
Photographer - Aitken T K (2nd Lt)
