Pictures from the Ypres Salient 2003.  Hill 60.

This Hill, formed by the spoil from the railway cutting nearby, and land surrounding it is preserved as a memorial to all who fought in the area.  Much of the fighting here was done underground and as a result lie buried beneath the ground the bodies of hundreds of British, French and German soldiers. 

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Memorial to the 14th (Light) Division.  Moved to this site from Railway Wood in 1978

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The memorial to the 1st Australian Tunneling Co.  The plaque shows bullet holes received by German soldiers during WW2.

Showing the scarred terrain and the remains of the huge crater created with the explosion of a mine, June 1917.

Pock-marked terrain of Hill 60.  Hill 60 was the site of a VC award to one Lieutenant Geoffrey Harold Wooley of the Queens Victoria Rifles.  You can read more on this story here.

Hill 60 Bunker.  The original bunker was built by the Germans with the top section added in February 1918 by Australian Engineers, only to lose it again a few months later.