A photograph of a ghastly sight in a shell crater near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres Sector, showing ...

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Accession Number E00927
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres, Zonnebeke
Date made 17 October 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

A photograph of a ghastly sight in a shell crater near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres Sector, showing the body of a youthful German who lost his life in no man's land, during the attack by the Australian troops at Broodseinde Ridge on 4 October 1917. The lower half of this image was used in a composite photograph produced by Frank Hurley, Official War Photographer, a print of which is held at P02514.001.