A Trestle Bridge, built by Australian Engineers to take motor transport across the Somme Canal, ...

Accession Number E03633
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Somme Canal
Date made 25 September 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A Trestle Bridge, built by Australian Engineers to take motor transport across the Somme Canal, near St Christ-Broist. In the rear is an A class bridge, of a span of sixty feet, in the course of construction. Note the two men in the row boat in the foreground.

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