The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A communication trench previously used by the Australian troops at Westhoek Ridge, in the Ypres section, during the attack of the 2nd Division further forward, near Passchendaele Ridge. Two unidentified members of the 2nd Division are seen watching the shellfire (not in view).
View of the old trenches on the Westhoek Ridge, between Hannebeek and Nonne Bosschen, in the Ypres sector, which were used by the enemy as a first line trench prior to the advance of the 1st Australia
A 4.5 inch Q.F. Howitzer gun bogged and abandoned on Westhoek Ridge during the attack at Passchendaele, in the Ypres sector. The building on the left was used as a Regimental Aid Post by the 5th Austr
Members of the 22nd Battalion, AIF, taking a meal in the trenches on Westhoek Ridge on the night before the opening Australian attack on the Third Battle of Ypres on 20 September 1917. Identified, lef
View of a tape line near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres sector. It was from this line that troops of the 3rd Division 'jumped off' for their attack toward Passchendaele three days before.
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
Troops of the 5th Division walking along a winding duckboard, known as Jabber Track, through the waterlogged and sodden valleys in Albania Woods, in the Ypres sector. On this date, the 3rd and 4th Div
