The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A view of the battlefield and the village of Loos showing in the centre the crassier and dump (a slagheap of mining spoil). Surrounding the crassier are the shell damaged houses of the miners. The 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company was at the time engaged in constructing tunnels and dugouts, and carrying out repairs after the battle of Hill 70 in August 1917.
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
A view of the wire entanglements behind Loos Tower Bridge, with Fosse 15 and Loos Crassier in the background. The 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company (3ATC) were engaged on trench shelter construction
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
Loos, France. 31 January 1918. The riddled ironwork of the Crassier at Loos, and the three rifles fixed for firing "grenade signals" by wire. Overhead the structure made an excellent observation post,
The site of the billets in the back area at Bracquemont and Noeux les Mines, occupied continuously for two years by the headquarters of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company. The chalk spoil heaps wer
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,
