Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ndị Australia nọrọ oge oyi na Belgium n'oge ha na-eme ihe nchebe ka ha na-ejide ọnọdụ dị iche iche n'akụkụ akara ahụ, mana na mbido 1918 a kpaliri ha ịga ndịda na Ndagwurugwu Somme. Mgbe ọdịda nke Tsarist Russia na ngwụcha afọ 1917, ndị Germany nwere ike ịnyefe nnukwu akụrụngwa na ndị ọrụ site na Eastern Front na Western Front ma mechaa malite mwakpo nke Spring na March. N'ịda n'akụkụ ndịda nke mpaghara nke ndị agha Britain nke atọ na nke ise, ndị agha ahụ gara nke ọma na mbụ na-eme ka ndị Allies laghachi azụ na ngwụsị March, ka ndị German na-emechi ụzọ ụgbọ okporo ígwè dị mkpa gburugburu Amiens, ngalaba ise nke Australia, bụ ndị a chịkọtara ọnụ dịka akụkụ nke ndị agha Australia, ka a kpọfere Somme iji nyere aka mee ka mwakpo ahụ kwụsị. Ngalaba nke 4 weghaara ọnọdụ gburugburu Dernancourt, n'akụkụ Osimiri Ancre, na 5 Eprel rụrụ ọrụ dị mkpa n'ịgbagha mwakpo ndị German n'ebe ahụ n'oge Agha nke Abụọ nke Dernancourt, ebe n'okwu onye edemede Chris Coulthard-Clark, Ngalaba nke 4 "chere ihu mwakpo kachasị ike megide ndị Australia n'oge agha ahụ". N'aka nke ha, ndị 49th Battalion, nke akụkụ nke 45th kwadoro, mere mwakpo dị mkpa n'ehihie n'etiti oke mmiri ozuzo, nke zọpụtara ọnọdụ maka ndị Australia, ndị agha German batara n'okporo ụzọ ụgbọ okporo ígwè dị n'ebe ọdịda anyanwụ nke obodo ahụ; n'ime nke a, ha tara ahụhụ nke ukwuu, n'agbanyeghị, na-efunahụ ndị isi 14 na ndị isi ndị ọzọ 207. Ka ọnwa ahụ na-aga, ha sonyere n'ọmụmụ ihe
Agha nke abụọ nke Villers-Bretonneux, na-ebute mwakpo ụbọchị Anzac nke meriri obodo ahụ nke ọma, nke furu efu ụbọchị gara aga mgbe mwakpo nke ndị agha German anọ.