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Photograph E04569 First World War, 1914-1918Members of the 4th Division standing around dugouts on the site of White Chateau near the Ypres-Comines Canal. These dugouts are within a few hundred yards of the front lines. Note the metal stakes

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Unidentified Australian members of the 4th Division constructing redoubts and shelters at various points along the trench lines as part of the reinforcement of the Corps Defenses near the Bluff on the Ypres-Comines Canal. Note the soldiers are using curved corrugated iron to create dugouts.
Members of the 4th Division standing around dugouts on the site of White Chateau near the Ypres-Comines Canal. These dugouts are within a few hundred yards of the front lines. Note the metal stakes

'Spoil Bank' in the southern portion of the Ypres sector showing the shelters of corrugated iron and sandbags constructed by the troops of the 4th Australian Division who were occupying the area at th

A general view of the Quarry near Hesbecourt, when it was occupied by C Company, of the 4th Battalion. Note the sheets of corrugated iron used at the entrance leading into the dugouts.

An informal portrait of members of a battery of Australian Heavy Artillery standing in front of sandbagged dugouts on the bank of the Ypres-Comines Canal. Above the dugouts several soldiers are stand
Two Australian gunners of the 54th Siege Battery, at Comines Canal Ypres, nose-capping shells. Note the field gun behind.

The 54th Battery of Australian Siege Artillery in action at Lock 8 on the Ypres-Comines Canal, south of Ypres. Note the large row of shells in the foreground.