The shell-ravaged landscape of Hill 60, some three miles to the south east of Ypres, conceals beneath it a labyrinth of tunnels and underground workings. This s
A study of the most important sites, primarily of the two world wars, covering both their history and descriptions of how they are today. For the interested tra
The story of the Australian miners and soldiers who tunnelled under Hill 60 near Ypres and eventually broke through to create a new frontline. On 7 June 1917, 1
Description: HILL 60. Part of Sheet 28. GSGS 3565 [Enlarged from 1:10,000 Trench Maps]. Area: Verbrandenmolen - Observatory Ridge - Clonmel Copse - Shrewsbury F
"Sergeant-Major Ernest Shephard took part in the 2nd battle of Ypres and the Somme battle of July 1916, and was commissioned 2nd Lt. in November 1916. A first-c