Item 01: Frank Hurley war diary, 21 August-28 October 1917 - Page 95
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gun positions for the 18 pounders, running up communication cables, restoring & remaking the roads & all the other industries of war. Wounded & prisoners continued to occasionally come in, but the dead were unburied. I went along a trench communicating with a pillbox lookout & there I found several partly buried, their feet protruding through into the open trench. Actually several dead lay in front of a captured pillbox in which a number of our men were living, & though they had to pass in & out over them they took no more notice of these dead than if they had been but earth itself.
Our new ground gained gives us control over the german lines, being the highest ridge for miles & practically impregnably fortified with pillboxes. How ever such a place fell is inconceivable, for these