View of dead Germans around a heavily concreted pill box, between Nonne Bosschen and Polygon ...

Accession Number E00777
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half-plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres
Date made 21 September 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

View of dead Germans around a heavily concreted pill box, between Nonne Bosschen and Polygon Wood, in the Ypres sector, the day following the Australian attack on 20 September 1917. The fire from these strong points proved costsly to the advancing troops, but the enemy occupants received no quarter.

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