Broodseinde Ridge was seized by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Australian, and 7th British Division on 4 ...

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Accession Number E00918
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Broodseinde, Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Broodseinde, Broodseinde Ridge
Date made 5 October 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

Broodseinde Ridge was seized by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Australian, and 7th British Division on 4 October, that day's action being known as the 'Battle of Broodseinde'. The New Zealand Division simultaneously seized the `Abraham Heights' to the north west. The photograph was taken on 5 October and shows the 24th Battalion in trenches near `Flinte Farm' beyond the crest of the ridge looking down on the woods (in the middle distance) to which the Germans had been driven. Celtic Copse can be seen in the background.