The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
View of the huge mine craters on Hill 70 near Lens. Note the two men standing on the bank of one crater.
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
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
Members of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, standing in two small experimental craters about six feet deep, just blown by an explosive near Loos. Left to right: 1125 J. S. Pettigrew (in crater);
Looking from an old crater on the north side of Hill 60, over the shell pitted ground towards Zillebeke Lake. The 1st Australian Tunnelling Company took over mining operations and mine fighting from t
La Boiselle, France. View of part of the large mine crater. Note the dugout entries in the side of the crater.
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
