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Photograph A00952 Period 1910-1919La Boiselle, France. Wooden crosses at a cemetery on what was once a battlefield. A mine crater is in the middle distance and Albert is in the background.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
La Boiselle, France. View of part of the large mine crater. Note the dugout entries in the side of the crater.
La Boiselle, France. Wooden crosses at a cemetery on what was once a battlefield. A mine crater is in the middle distance and Albert is in the background.

A crater of a mine, exploded by a British Tunnelling Company at La Boiselle.

"Side of Huge Crater La Boiselle. M.G. School". This inscription was recorded on the back of the original photograph by the photographer. To this inscription 3120 Sergeant Norman Max Pontin has added

A section of La Boiselle crater, near Pozieres, which is about 200 feet in circumference and 30 feet deep, and is one of the largest craters on the Western Front. It was excavated when mines blew up
View of enemy shells bursting in the ruins of Ypres. Note the large shell crater in the foreground.
View of the huge mine craters on Hill 70 near Lens. Note the two men standing on the bank of one crater.
