"Iron Gate, looking west down Ultimo Avenue CT [communication trench]. Note the duck boards ...

Accession Number P09534.019
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Harvey, William Wyatt
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Messines
Date made January 1919
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

"Iron Gate, looking west down Ultimo Avenue CT [communication trench]. Note the duck boards leading into the trench round to the right, which leads to Au Chasseur Cabaret & to FL [front line]." 'There was always a sentry stationed here. Once we passed this on our way home we used to reckon we were safe through for that day.' (One of a collection of photographs belonging to Lieutenant (Lt) Robert Trevor Williams and taken by Lt William Wyatt Harvey during a battlefield tour of France and Belgium, January 1919, by officers of the 3rd Pioneer Battalion. The original caption quoted in double inverted commas is by Lt Harvey. The original caption quoted in single inverted commas is by Lt Williams.)