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| Looking to the top of Hill 60. if you've seen the film you know the story. The Australian miners who became army tunnellers, digging underground tunnels and fitting explosives to destroy the German enemy lines. It worked - over 600 were killed and The British (Australians) were able to take Hill 60 (a strategic vantage point) from the Germans. |
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| You can see the uneven ground - crater holes in the ground from WW1 bombs. |
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| Monument atop the hill. |
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| What's left of a WW1 concrete bunker. |
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| And another. |
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| This one's amazingly still in tact. |
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| A monument that commemorates The Australian involvement in this great feat. |
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| And the plaque reads... |
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| Just in case you're keen to dine on the battlefield - no thanks. |
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| This is in the museum at Passchendaele. The museum chronicled the great number of battles that went on across the Western Front, there were heaps and each had a name and a map of the territory gained/lost by each side.. These masks always scare me. Whenever I see old photographs of men wearing them they give me the creeps. Imagine my horror at a whole cabinet of them! Maybe because they look so alien-like it scares me. I wonder what they thought of them back then? |
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| A reconstruction of a bunker. Pretty authentic, looks a lot like real photos we saw. |
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| Bunker hall. |
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| The lighting in this one is a bit better, hate how stark a flash makes things. |
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| Sleeping quarters, for those that were lucky enough not to have to sleep in the trenches I guess... |
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| A mock-up medical room, still looks pretty horrific. |
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