The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The mud covered corduroy track enables men of the 3rd Division to pass over the marshes near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres Sector. The heavy rains of several days before caused the shell torn ground to become a vast bog.
Members of the 3rd Australian Pioneers near Zonnebeke Railway Station, in the Ypres sector, laying down a mule track to Broodseinde Ridge, over the ground captured by the Australian troops in the atta
Mule transport with the 3rd Division following a 'corduroy' track near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres Sector. Private R Mitchell of the 42nd Battalion is leading the animals. The photograph gives some idea o
View of the dreary expanse of the battleground at Zonnebeke, in the Ypres sector, as it appeared on 24 October 1917. Heavy rains, the first touch of winter, had just fallen, and the shell churned mars
View of the slippery mud on a corduroy track in the Ypres sector, which made it necessary to use six horses to pull a GS wagon from the ditch.
Australian transports stuck fast in the mud near Westhoek, in the Ypres sector. On the right can be seen several pack mules struggling through the bog.
A view of the ruined church of Zonnebeke and a corner of the once charming little lake alongside which it stood before the area became one of the greatest battle grounds in history. In the fighting wh
