World War One
The Great War
Cause's For World War One
Australias Part In The War
The Battles
- Battle of the Somme
- Bullecourt
where only some of the Battle fought by the AUSTRALIAN soldiers had to fight in.Battle of the Somme stared in July 1916 to November 1916 and it was aimed to break the stalemate because nothing was happening and no one was winning.the plan was to send out a huge attack on the Germans in the Somme river valley and this would cut them off from the war but the Germans had heavy gun fire and on the first day the Germans killed over 20,000 soldiers.the Australians how ever where able to capture a small German town and by the end of august they where able to gain 1.5 kilometres in land.In April 1917 Australian soldiers were sent to fight the Germans near the bull court they had tanks so it was going to be easy but they broke down the Australians were still able to break through the barbed wire and capture the first two German trenches.the Germans sent out a counter attack and 80 per cent of the attacking force was lost but Australia sent more troops in early may and they held down Bullecourt.