After Gallipoli, Australian troops regrouped in Egypt. Strengthened by fresh reinforcements from Australia they moved to the Western Front (France and Belgium) and were heavily involved by July 1916, with Douglas Diggers in the 9th, 15th, 19th, 25th, 26th and 47th Battalions taking part in the Somme offensive at Pozieres and shortly after at Mouquet Farm, where the 49th first fought.

In 1917, the Australians, including the Battalions with Douglas soldiers, were again heavily engaged: in March at Bapaume; in May and June at Bullecourt (where the 15th suffered major losses) and Messines; and from September to November, in the great battle of the Ypres offensive. Casualties were high.

In March and April 1918, Australian troops played a prominent part in the defence of Amiens, Hazebrouck and Villers-Bretonneux, during a massive German attack in France and Belgium (the Spring Offensive). The German attack was halted and the Allies mounted their own offensive from July. The Australians were engaged in a number of battles as the Allies drove the Germans back towards eventual defeat. The Armistice was signed on 11 November 1918.


 Ahlers Ferdinand Emil (Western Front)

Allan, John (Western Front)

Allen, George (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Allen, John (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Alley, George Kenneth (Western Front)

Anderson, Charles Olef (Western Front)

Arntzen, Andrew Valentine (Western Front)

Bailey, William (Western Front)

Baird, Norman (Western Front)

Ball, Herbert James (Western Front)

Ball, John (Western Front)

Batten, Richard Henry (Western Front)

Bird, William (Western Front)

Bish, Joseph (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Blain, Angus Cameron (Western Front)

Blaney, James (Western Front)

Bonthorne, Maurice Douglas (Western Front)

Bowcock, Harry (Western Front)

Boyle, Joseph Patrick (Western Front)

Bray, William (Western Front)

Byrne, Michael Edward (Western Front)

Carmody, Thomas Joseph (Western Front)

Casey, Patrick (Western Front)

Childs, George Rupert (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Christie, Edward Lindsay (Western Front)

Christie, Leslie (Western Front)

Coultas, George Herbert (Western Front)

Coulthard, Frank (Western Front)

Crawford, Charles Muntz (Western Front)

Crawford, George Edward (Western Front, Middle East)

Crees, John Lionel Edgar (Western Front)

Cudday, Fraser Harold George (Western Front)

Cuddy, Lewis Charles (Western Front)

De Daunton, Francis Joseph (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Devitt, James (Western Front)

Donnelly, Augustine Stanislaus (Western Front)

Doyle, Bailey (Western Front)

Elworthy, Richard (Western Front)

Evans, Thomas Alexander (Western Front)

Evans, Walter Herbert (Western Front)

Fagg, Stephen (Western Front)

Feldmann, Norman Frederick (Western Front)

Fenwick, Robert (Western Front

Fielding, William George (Gallipoli, Western Front, Middle East )

Francis, Thomas Henry (Western Front)

Fredericksen, John (Western Front)

Frederickson, Johannes (Western Front)

Gaffney, Charles William (Western Front)

Gault, Frank (Western Front)

Geeves, Robert Charles (Western Front)

Gill, Thomas Henry (Western Front)

Hammond, George (Western Front)

Hansford, George Douglas (Western Front)

Harris, David John (Western Front)

Harrison, William John (Western Front)

Herman, George William (Western Front)

Hewett, Ivor Frederick (Middle East, Gallipoli, Western Front)

Inglis, Richard (Western Front)

Jack, Andrew Howard (Western Front)

Jackson, James (Western Front)

Jackson, Thomas Henry (Western Front)

Johnston, James Aden (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Jowett, Percy Thomas (Western Front)

Keleher, Michael Hugh (Western Front)

Keogh, James Patrick (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Kiely, Richard Joseph (Western Front)

Korotcoff, Nicholas (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Kostin, John (Western Front)

Kristensen Peter Christian (Western Front)

Langtree, John (Western Front)

Lawson, George (Western Front)

Lehane, William (Western Front)

Lematey, John William (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Malden, John (Western Front, Middle East)

Marsden, Frederick Dickson (Gallipoli, Western Front, Middle East)

McDonald, Alexander Douglas (Western Front)

McGregor, Alexander Robert (Western Front)

McLean, Frederick William (Western Front)

McQueen, Malcolm (Western Front)

Meldrum, Peter (Western Front)

Mestrez, Charles Joseph (Western Front)

Miller, Roy Albert (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Millet, William George (Western Front)

Milne, George (Western Front)

Moody, George Frederick (Western Front)

Morris, Joseph (Western Front)

Murphy, James (Western Front)

Nielson, Gerald Hugh (Western Front)

Nielson, Norman Joseph (Western Front)

O’Connor, Thomas John (Western Front)

O'Donoghue, Thomas Augustine (Western Front)

O’Keeffe, Daniel (Western Front)

O'Reilly, Kevin Douglas (Western Front, New Guinea)

Osborne, Arthur Daintree (Western Front)

Parnell, Louisa (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Paull, John Albert (Western Front)

Perry, Joseph (Western Front)

Peterson William Ernest (Western Front)

Petrie, Leslie Stuart (Western Front)

Pomeroy, Alan Charles (Western Front)

Power, William James (Western Front

Prendergast, Richard (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Price, Walter (Western Front)

Pridmore, Albert (Western Front)

Pringle, Harry Tyson (Western Front, Middle East)

Quinn, Patrick Francis (Western Front)

Ramsay John McDairmid (Western Front)

Ramsay, Andrew (Western Front)

Randle, William James (Western Front)

Rogers, Patrick James (Gallipoli, Western Front, Middle East)

Rose, Hugh James (Western Front)

Ryan, James (Western Front)

Sanford, James (Western Front, Egypt)

Sharoff, Nicholas (Gallipoli, Western Front)

Slater, Archibald William Hamilton II (Western Front)

Smith, George Henry (Western Front)

Smith, Frederick (Western Front)

Snowdon, Charles Henry (Western Front)

Stamp, George (Western Front)

Stewart, Charles Roger (Western Front)

Thompson, Oliver August (Western Front)

Thurlow, Albert Ernest (Western Front)

Trenam, Harry (Western Front, Middle East)

Tucker, Ronald George (Western Front, Middle East)

Ward, Stanley Arthur (Western Front)

Ward, Samuel (Western Front)

Warren, William (Western Front)

Whitman, Lewis Latimer (Western Front)

Wright, Henry (Western Front, Middle East)

York, George (Western Front)

Young, Hector James (Western Front)

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