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Passchendaele 12 October - 6 November:After....
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Assault on Passchendaele 12 October - 6 November: Most of the men (about forty only) left in the 8th Australian Battalion after the opening push of the second battle of Passchendaele on 26 October. Photograph taken as they were on their way from the trenches on 28 October and the men look dirty and grimly relieved. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (E(AUS) 943) Frank Hurley and George H(Hubert) Wilkins: The battle of Passchendaele; a frank photograph of reaction to duty in the trenches as men of the 10th Australian Brigade sit attempting to dry themselves in front of a fire after being relieved. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (E(AUS) 941) Exhausted stretcher bearers from the 3rd Australian Division rest in the mud and drizzle of Broodseinde Ridge, during the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 11 October 1917. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (E(AUS) 1220) Australian troops walk along a duckboard track through the remains of Chateau Wood, Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 29 October 1917. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (E(AUS) 1129) The congested interior of a dugout 15 feet below ground. Steel girders support the ceiling with heavy uprights. Men are crowded in two layers. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs
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