In a quiet village in a part of the Western Front battlefields that it's easy to overlook,

men who had fought at Gallipoli and in some of Australia's toughest battles on the Western Front

took part in their final attack of the Great War.

This was Montbrilla, the last digger action.

Tomorrow is the 25th of April, Anzac Day,

the day when in 1915 the men of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps

landed on the beaches at Gallipoli.

The Australians and New Zealanders weren't the only ones

at Gallipoli, of course. More French died at Gallipoli than Australians, but for those young

nations, those young Dominion nations, this was a moment in time, a moment in their history

when, as those young nations, they entered the world stage so it became a defining

moment for nations like Australia in the Great War and we see this with many of those nations

on different battlefields of the First World War and while Gallipoli came to dominate the Australian

consciousness of the First World War it was the war on the Western

fronts and Australia's casualties on the Western Front that would really dominate the experience

of Australian troops in that conflict. So to commemorate Anzac Day, we'll not look at Gallipoli,

we'll go right to the end of Australia's experience on the Western Front and look at the final engagement of men from the Imperial Force as part of the Australian Corps in the last digger action of the First World War, Australia's last pitch battle of the war on the Western Front, the attack on the small village of Montbrilla.

But before we do that, let's look at how Australia got to that point in October 1918 when the

attack on Montbrilla was made. After Gallipoli, Australian troops went to Egypt. The size of the

Australian Imperial Force was growing and now there were

more battalions and more divisions, but they were not brought together under a unified Australian

command at this time. They were going to be attached to different parts of the British

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