The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 crater marked the last of the enemy mine fighting on the famous Hill 70 position. It was blown by the enemy on 8 July, but the charging beforehand had been heard by listeners of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, and no casualties resulted. Two weeks later this unit joined with British troops in the capture of the whole enemy mine system on Hill 70, consisting of over three miles of galleries.
The Seaforth and Shoreditch mine craters at Hill 70, near Lens. These mines were blown from 100 feet below the surface by British Tunnelling Companies, during the mine fighting in March and April 1916
View of the huge mine craters on Hill 70 near Lens. Note the two men standing on the bank of one crater.
A view of the ruins of Loos showing the extent of the destruction wrought by the years of bombardment to which the town was subjected. Beyond the coal mine to the right is the famous Hill 70, in the c
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
Wire entanglements in front of the German front line from October 1915 to May 1917, on Hill 70, near Loos. The rough nature of the surface is largely the result of mine fighting by the 3rd Australian
The broken remains of a Theodolite and tripod, shattered into five pieces of metal and wooden components. Used by Lieutenant Hugh Russel and Sapper Joe Carden of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Compa
