A communication trench 25 feet below the surface, excavated by the 1st Australian Tunnelling ...

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Accession Number E02095
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres, Menin Road, Hooge
Date made 18 September 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

A communication trench 25 feet below the surface, excavated by the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, in the Ypres sector. Owing to the sodden nature of the earth the passage ways had to be heavily timbered. 3607 Sergeant A. Hood has been up to his knees in mud.