A dust scene on the Properinghe Road, on the way to Ypres, showing the 2nd Australian Divisional ...

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Accession Number E00871
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres
Date made 30 September 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A dust scene on the Properinghe Road, on the way to Ypres, showing the 2nd Australian Divisional Ammunition Column moving forward, during the Third Battle of Ypres, when this road was enveloped day and night in thick grey clouds of dust, raised by the great stream of troops and traffic which never ceased for weeks on end. Note the man on the bicycle in the foreground.