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The images on this page are in the public domain, and mostly drawn from the Australian War Memorial's archive for the 1st Tunnelling Company. The images of people and places are those referred to specifically in the podcast.
We gratefully acknowledge the support and dedication of AWM staff in collecting and making available these significant resources. Other resources referred to in the podcast include the The Horsehoe Bend Great War Roll of Honour located at the Maitland RSL Sub-Branch Rooms.Â
5532 Sapper Alphonsus Edwards and Elsie Edwards, 1924.
Looking from an old crater on the north side of Hill 60, over the shell pitted ground towards Zillebeke Lake.
Members of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company repairing a water main in the recaptured village.
Memorial to men of the 1st Tunnelling Company, AIF, who were involved in tunnelling and mining operations at Hill 60, near Ypres, in 1916-1917.
Studio portrait of 3466A, Sapper (Spr) Charles Cuthbertson, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, of Ipswich, Qld, Formerly a miner, Spr Cuthbertson enlisted on 10 February 1916, and as a member of the No 1 Mining Corps, 4th Reinforcements, he embarked from Melbourne, Vic, on 16 August 1916 aboard RMS Orontes. Spr Cuthbertson was wounded in action on the Western Front and died of his wounds on 8 October 1918, aged 28.
Studio portrait of 1420 Sapper Alfred William Jarman, No 1 Mining Corps (later 1 Australian Tunnelling Company) of Parramatta, NSW. A shipwright prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the HMAT Ulysses (A38) on 20 February 1916. He died on 13 June 1917, at the 2nd Canadian Clearing Station, France, of wounds received in action, aged 35. He is buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Studio portrait of 5605 Sapper (Spr) Lyle Ranger, 1st Tunnelling Company. Spr Ranger, an apprentice tailor from Argentan, NSW, enlisted aged 17 at Newcastle, NSW. He embarked from Melbourne on 25 October 1916 aboard HMAT Ulysses (A38) and was killed in action in Belgium on 25 April 1917.
The front of the wrecked Cavalry Barracks when it was used as a depot of the Australian Ordnance Corps. Prior to the Australians capturing Peronne, the Germans used this building as a very large military school.
The grave of 210 Sapper John Kenneth 'Ken' McLennan, Australian Mining and Boring Company. Sapper McLennan was killed in action on 23 June 1916 and is buried in Berks Cemetery Extension, Ploegsteert Wood, Wallonie, Belgium.
Ypres, Belgium. c. 1923. A monument erected at Hill 60 to commemorate men of the 1st Tunnelling Company, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), who died during mining operations between 1916-11 and 1917-07.
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