The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A group of Australian soldiers quartered at one of the old German reinforced concrete pillboxes, known as 'Kit and Kat', near Zonnebeke. It was used by English, Australian and Canadian troops on different occasions during the fighting in October 1917. These shelters were often built inside the ruins of village houses, which served to camouflage them.
The ruins of two German pillboxes in a French village. The pillboxes were part of the strong German third line at this point, which British troops, attacking in conjunction with the 5th Australian Di
Soldiers repairing the Zonnebeke railway siding in the Ypres Sector. Troops can be seen passing along the railway line toward the forward zone (left), and by looking closely into the photograph, shell
An unidentified Australian soldier looking through the loophole of a captured machine gun emplacement at Kit and Kat, in the Ypres sector. Although solidly built of concrete slabs, supported by heavy
A huge fortress-like concrete dug-out, built by the Germans in the embankment of the Zonnebeke Railway, in the Ypres Sector, in Belgium, and previously used by them as a Field Hospital for 45 patients
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
Pozieres, France, 1916. The ruins of a German fortification made of steel-reinforced concrete and known as "Gibraltar" or "The Cement House". It was captured in 1916-07 by soldiers of the 2nd Battalio
