| Accession Number | E03859 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
| Maker |
Unknown Australian Official Photographer |
| Place made | France: Picardie, Aisne, Bellicourt |
| Date made | c October 1918 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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The 6 inch shell hole above the Riqueval entrance to the St Quentin Canal Tunnel at Bellicourt. ...
Description
The 6 inch shell hole above the Riqueval entrance to the St Quentin Canal Tunnel at Bellicourt. It was precisely at this spot that a shell pierced the bank and exploded in the chamber in the tunnel used by the Germans as a cookhouse and alleged to have been a human boiling down factory. Photograph E03491, taken by flashlight reveals the presence of a number of dead bodies in this chamber, but no evidence was found to prove anything beyond the fact that it was an ordinary cookhouse.