The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Troops of the 5th Division walking along a winding duckboard, known as Jabber Track, through the waterlogged and sodden valleys in Albania Woods, in the Ypres sector. On this date, the 3rd and 4th Division were engaged in the attack on Passchendaele Ridge, seen in the distance. Identified, along the duckboard, right to left: unidentified; Private (Pte) N Jewell (cigarette in mouth); Pte A Cranston; second from the front is Corporal Wiley.
The battlefield south of Passchendaele between Dadizeele (Dadizele) Church and Jericho pillbox, taken from Molenaarelsthoek. Note the tangle of barbed wire in the foreground, and the winding duckboar
Four unidentified soldiers walking along a duckboard track across the otherwise impassable mud at Garter Point, near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres sector. The wire entanglements fronted the recent German li
The battlefield around Helles, in the Ypres sector, looking towards Zonnebeke and Passchendaele. Broodseinde Ridge is to the right, and Albania to the left, with Abraham Heights showing faintly in the
Laying down a mule track and camouflaging it with earth at Albania Woods, in the Ypres Sector. This track, leading to Jabber House, was laid by the 8th Field Company, Australian Engineers, as, owing t
A view of the flooded areas on the Australian front, near Avenue Cottage, near Messines, in Belgium. Two members of the 2nd Australian Division are seen walking along the duckboard track.
Supporting troops of the 1st Australian Division walking on a duckboard track near Hooge, in the Ypres Sector. They form a silhouettte against the sky as they pass towards the front line to relieve th
