The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An Australian forward Artillery Observation Post, in the Crater on Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres sector, in Belgium. The position was shelled and machine gunned each day and gassed at night. Just after the photograph was taken, the officer observer and his sergeant were wounded by a shell.
A forward Observation Post of the 37th Battery of Australian Field Artillery, between the front and support lines east of Zonnebeke on the Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres Sector. The officer is locati
Broodseinde Ridge, Belgium. 5 October 1917. An Observation Post in the Ypres Sector, from which the Australian observers had an excellent view of Becelaere, Keiburg and Passchendaele. This position wa
An unidentified soldier using binoculars looks out from the ruins of a house on a prominent point on Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres sector, used by the Australian Field Artillery as a Forward Observa
Looking across Retaliation Farm to Helles and Anzac Ridge from the crater, on Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres sector. Note the water filled shell holes.
View of a huge crater on Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres sector, where the enemy had established a strong post.
View of the Crater on Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres sector, in Belgium, a place too persistently strafed to be used as a shelter.
