Item 01: Frank Hurley war diary, 21 August-28 October 1917 - Page 154
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into our doings & photographing.
I went with Joyce & Wilkins on an ambulance lorry to the Hooge crater, & had considerable excitement on account of the Boche shelling the road. Afterwards we went through the infamous Chateau Wood & up the enfiladed road to Westhock Ridge. This region always suffers heavy shelling & we passed through nearly a mile of straffed limbers & waggons & dead horses. I have not seen a more terrible scene of desolation, waste & destruction than hereabouts on Westhock. The Boche observation on his area is superb, & the least congestion invariably brings shelling. We returned over the duckboards by a safer route to Hellfire Corner, & thence on to Ypres. A fine sunset beautified these solemn ruins, that awakened feelings of awe & made one sorrow for the things which war has done. Took 18 plates.