A German shell bursting near a concrete pillbox on Broodseinde Ridge in the Ypres sector, in ...

Accession Number E01896
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Broodseinde, Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Broodseinde, Broodseinde Ridge
Date made 15 October 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

A German shell bursting near a concrete pillbox on Broodseinde Ridge in the Ypres sector, in Belgium. Note the shelters spread across the infantry support trenches as protection against the rain and serving also as camouflage against enemy aeroplanes.

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