The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Looking towards Hooge Crater from Stirling Castle, near the Menin Road, in the Ypres Sector, the day of the opening Australian attack, which the 1st Australian Division troops, seen on the road, are moving up to support. As the photograph was being taken a shell burst alongside the column, as indicated by the white smoke, killing three men and wounding a number of others.
Troops of the 1st Division in support, passing along the Menin Road near Stirling Castle, in the Ypres sector, from Hooge Crater to the front line to take part in the attack opened earlier in the day
View of the dumps of engineering and railway supplies, and shells off loaded from motor lorries alongside the Menin Road at Hooge, in the Ypres sector. Trucks and soldiers are on the road.
Australian artillery horses alongside an empty shell case dump near Menin Road, in the Ypres sector.
Australian troops passing along the track leading to Idiot Corner, at Westhoek Ridge, in the Ypres sector. From left is Stirling Castle, a 6 inch gun out of action, duckboard track, Chateau Wood, Hoog
Dumps and lorries set on fire by incendiary shells during a bombardment of the Menin Road, near Hooge, in the Ypres sector.
View of an ammunition dump on fire on the Menin Road, near Hooge, in the Ypres sector. Note the remains of a limber and wheels in the right foreground.
