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Photograph A00956 Period 1910-1919La Boiselle, France. View of part of the large mine crater. Note the dugout entries in the side of the crater.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A crater of a mine, exploded by a British Tunnelling Company at La Boiselle.
La Boiselle, France. View of part of the large mine crater. Note the dugout entries in the side of the crater.

La Boiselle, France. Wooden crosses at a cemetery on what was once a battlefield. A mine crater is in the middle distance and Albert is in the background.

Coulter Crater at Hill 70, near Lens, named after Major L. T. Coulter DSO, Commanding Officer of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, who was killed in action on 28 June 1917. The explosion of this

"Side of Huge Crater La Boiselle. M.G. School". This inscription was recorded on the back of the original photograph by the photographer. To this inscription 3120 Sergeant Norman Max Pontin has added

A mine crater blown by the enemy at the Bluff, in the Ypres sector. The pile of sand bags in the centre numbers several thousand, and are filled with the spoil taken from the mines made by the 2nd Au

St Yves, Belgium. The water filled mine crater which exploded near St Ives on 7 June 1917. This was the southern most of the nineteen huge mines exploded by the British at the 'zero' hour of the ass
