Item 01: Frank Hurley war diary, 21 August-28 October 1917 - Page 135
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& bits of scrap iron rails. Already we are starting to rebuild it, & about 1,000 labourers were at work rail laying. It will be of incalculable value to support the front lines & artillery, as the roads will be impassable during the winter. Its a bloody work however, for it is being constantly shelled & numbers are daily killed. It is littered with bodies both of our own men & Boche.
Things were reasonably quiet till we got near to Zonnebeke - But the mud! trudge, trudge. Sometimes to the Knee in Sucking, tenacious Slime - A fair hell of a job under ordinary conditions: but with a heavy camera up & being shelled, I hardly thought "the game worth the candle". Nearing Zonnebeke we got Into the Boche barrage, & as he was paying particular attention to the railway line,