The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 this chalk proved a big proglem, as about 12,000 tons had to be disposed of within a short distance of the enemy's lines. The 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company was employed on this work. Identified are, Captain A. C. Morric (left), and Lieutenant D. Wentworth (right).
Captain A. C. Morris, Commander of No. 3 Section, 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, standing near an intermediate entrance to Hythe Tunnel, in a communication trench known as Hythe Alley, at Hill 70,
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 gal
Near Loos, France. 7 February 1918. The Quarry near Loos, between Loos Crassier and the Lens-Bethune Road in France, when the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company was engaged in trench shelter and tunnel
A panorama of Loos, showing on the left the road leading to Crucifix Dump. In the centre of the picture is Loos Crassier with Hill 70 in the background is Fosse 121, Cite St. Pierre. The 3rd Australia
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
The communication trench which led from the St Quentin Canal Tunnel (in the middle distance) to the trench system near the village of Bony. It was generally thought that underground communication had
