The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Near Loos, France. 7 February 1918. A trench excavated by the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company by using explosive encased in steel tubes three feel long and three inches in diameter, laid underground along the lines required. See also E04560 and E04561.
Near Loos, France. 7 February 1918. The 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company blowing an experimental trench with explosive which was enclosed in steel tubes three feet long and three inches in diameter a
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 wer
Near Loos, France. 7 February 1918. A view of the ruins of Fosse 15, near Loos, showing the `Tower Bridge' Colliery. The cloud effect shown was produced by the bursting of an enemy 5.9in shell, 140 ya
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
5106 Sapper (Spr) T. Blackburn, and 4518 Spr P. R. Wilson, both cooks of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, preparing dinner in the underground system known as the Hulluch and St Elie Tunnels, nea
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);
