The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 gallery to suitable positions, hauled to the surface and emptied at night. In places where the chalk crumbled, the walls had to be revetted, as is seen on the left. Identified left to right: Captain R. J. Langton MC, Officer Commanding, No. 1 Section (holding bag); 1194 Sapper (Spr) D. C. Vecchia; 6772 Spr C. A. L. Robinson, all members of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company.
Miners of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company excavating dug-outs for Headquarters, 25 feet below the surface, in the Ypres sector. Left to right: 3261 Sapper (Spr) E. J. Anderson; 3716 Spr J. Mulli
France. 31 January 1918. Hill 70, near Loos, showing the camouflage covering the dumps of chalk which had been brought to the surface in excavating the Hythe Tunnel Subway System. The concealment of t
The entrance to the Advanced Headquarters of the Nos 1 and 4 sections of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, in the Hulluch underground system. The Hulluch underground system was a huge subway tha
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
A group of unidentified Australian soldiers, possibly members of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, in a tunnel in the Hulluch underground system known as 'Charing Cross'. On the left is a pile o
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
