The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The entrance to the Advanced Headquarters of the Nos 1 and 4 sections of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, in the Hulluch underground system. The Hulluch underground system was a huge subway that consisted of several miles of galleries, large chambers for dining rooms, sleeping apartments and offices, and was able to accommodate 2000 troops.
A group of unidentified Australian soldiers, possibly members of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, in a tunnel in the Hulluch underground system known as 'Charing Cross'. On the left is a pile o
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
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
Designed as the Cabin class restaurant - the main dining hall of the ship - this is probably the largest room afloat at the time. As a troops' mess, seating 14 men to a table, it and the four private
LADY BOWEN HOSTEL BRISBANE. WITH SLEEPING ACCOMMODATION FOR 200 OTHER RANKS, ARMY PERSONNEL ARE CONSTRUCTING IN BRISBANE AND LADY BOWEN HOSTEL FOR AUSTRALIAN TROOPS ON LEAVE. THE HOSTEL CONTAINS A SNA
POPONDETTA, NEW GUINEA, 1945-07-02. THE SITE OF A FORMER JAPANESE HQ. THE DARK PATCH SHOWS THE ENTRANCE TO A TUNNEL AND UNDERGROUND ROOMS. THE EXCAVATION WAS COVERED WITH SHEETS OF IRON AND STEEL.
