The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Signal Engineers, with a reel of cable, leaving a Signal Office on Westhoek Ridge, in the Ypres Sector, to lay a surface telephone line to a forward unit, during the battle of Zonnebeke. Buried cable routes were mainly relied on, but when these failed through shellfire, surface lines were run out as a temporary measure until communication by the buried lines was restored. Identified, holding the reel of cable on the parapet are, Sheppard (left), and Moore. Standing in the trench, grouped together, left to right: Dodswell (back to camera); Wills (right arm on hip), and Parnell.
Members of the 24th Battalion laying a buried cable to Albert Redoubt, in the Ypres sector, the day after the Australian attack. The telephone was the mainstay of communications, but in view of surfac
A large group of unidentified Australian Engineers laying down a telephone cable, through fields and hilly terrain, to the forward lines near Villers-Bretonneux. Owing to the damage caused by heavy s
Linesmen of the 2nd Divisional Signal Company of Australian Engineers preparing to lay a telephone line from a Signal Office and observation post on Westhoek Ridge, to a unit in an advanced position.
Gallipoli, Turkey. 1915. Using a handcart or trolley with a roll of cable mounted on it, members of the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company lay telephone lines at Anzac Cove. The soldiers are (le
BUCKLAND, WA. 1942-11-24. MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S ARMY SERVICE RECEIVING INSTRUCTION IN ADVANCED TRAINING OF INSTRUMENT OPERATORS. ATTACHED TO ANTI-AIRCRAFT GROUP, FREMANTLE, THEY ARE BEING
Members of a British Labour Company engaged on the reconstruction of the Zonnebeke Railway, near Railway Wood. This photograph was taken during one of the wide 'area' strafes by the enemy, and the wor
