View of the shell strafed surface of Hill 60, in Belgium. Hill 60 achieved notoriety as a scene ...

Accession Number E02045
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres, Hill 60
Date made 17 August 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

View of the shell strafed surface of Hill 60, in Belgium. Hill 60 achieved notoriety as a scene of some of the most intense mine fighting on the Western Front, and in certain phases of this kind of warfare Australian Tunnelling Companies played a conspicuous part.

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