The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Near Loos, France. 7 February 1918. The 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company preparing to excavate a trench, by means of pipes filled with explosives, near Loos. Channels about 9in wide and 18in deep were dug, the pipes inlaid (as shown in photograph), and detonated. Identified, left to right: Corporal Evans; Sapper (Spr) Pettigrew; Spr A. V. Angel; Second Corporal J. Taylor; the other men are unidentified. The sappers were working under the supervision of Lieutenant J. Dow. See also E04561 and E04562.
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);
Members of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, inserting an experimental charge in chalk near Loos. Left to right: 2436 Sapper (Spr) V. H. Angel; 4262 Spr F. Alexander; 4428 Spr E. G. Nelson (kneel
Members of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, sinking a hole with a post hole borer, prior to charging and blowing a small experimental crater, near Loos. Left to right: 5313 Sapper (Spr) T. P. Du
Near Loos, France. 7 February 1918. The Quarry near Loos, between Loos Crassier and the Lens-Bethune Road in France, when the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company was engaged in trench shelter and tunnel
Men of the 3rd Australian Company excavating a chamber in the chalk in the Hulluch subway system. The chalk was dug out with miners' picks and filled into bags. These bags were trucked along the gal
Members of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company excavating at Hooge, in the Ypres Sector. Work on these dugouts constituted a record for Tunnelling Companies employed under such conditions, for the g
