Missing war trophy. The action near Péronne just over two months before the war's end. The 77mm German field gun is long gone, probably stolen and melted down for its metal, but the plaque remains at the base of a memorial (1922) which lists in granite the names of more than 350 men of Leichhardt who volunteered and died in the First World War. The memorial bears the simple inscription "Honor To The Dead". A gun grew of six Prussian Guards were killed for the now vanished artillery piece. W.M.Currey VC went on to become a railway worker, trade unionist, and Labor Party MP in the New South Wales State Parliament, twice re-elected, before he died suddenly after he collapsed in the state house in 1948 aged 52. Leichhardt.
Bottom Photo: Australian machine gun post, Péronne, France, Sept. 1918. Source: Official Australian War Photographer not known (one of 16)/Sir John Monash Centre, Villiers-Bretonneux, France.