The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A communication trench 25 feet below the surface, excavated by the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, in the Ypres sector. Owing to the sodden nature of the earth the passage ways had to be heavily timbered. 3607 Sergeant A. Hood has been up to his knees in mud.
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
The Seaforth and Shoreditch mine craters at Hill 70, near Lens. These mines were blown from 100 feet below the surface by British Tunnelling Companies, during the mine fighting in March and April 1916
A firing bay in a captured trench near Ploegsteert. Owing to the sodden nature of the country, all excavations had to be revetted to prevent them falling in. The photograph was taken on a quiet day in
Studio portrait of 3607 Sergeant Alexander Hood, 4th (later 1st) Australian Tunnelling Company of Homebush, NSW. A contractor prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Warilda (A69) on
Laying down a mule track and camouflaging it with earth at Albania Woods, in the Ypres Sector. This track, leading to Jabber House, was laid by the 8th Field Company, Australian Engineers, as, owing t
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
