The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Major E N Mulligan DSO, Commanding Officer of the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company (standing) and Mr Malcolm Ross, New Zealand official war correspondent (sitting on sandbags), outside the camouflaged entrance of a tunnel. The tunnel was later extended to 750 feet in length. The 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company was at this time engaged in constructing defensive works in the area while attached to British troops defending the sector. Note an unidentified soldier sitting inside the tunnel.
Two unidentified members of the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company working by candlelight on a tunnel. A few months earlier the company, attached to the 1st British Division defending the area, was eng
A sandbagged trench leading to the entrance of a tunnel (background, left). During June and July 1917 the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, attached to the 1st British Division, were engaged in cons
An officer, probably Major E N Mulligan DSO Commanding Officer of the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, standing near a French 'cut and cover' communication trench. This was later replaced by a tunn
The pier at the southern mouth of the Yser River, in no man's land, and the esplanade at Nieuport-Bains. The farther pier had just previously been shelled by our artillery and a German sniper was repo
A cellar in the ruins of a house used as a headquarters by the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, whilst employed with the British troops in that sector during the latter part of 1917. Captain F G Phi
Two unidentified soldiers, probably of the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, examining a breach made by a shell in a timber French 'cut and cover' trench in the sand. This trench was later abandoned
