Working your way through this website you will find many maps and information as to what happened and when it happened. Movie clip is silent and accompanies the map and shows the conditions on the road. The maps also show where the Australians were situated on the front line.
Movie Clip description
Horse-drawn wagons and trucks move forward in the run-up to the
Third Battle for Ypres (also known as Passchendaele), in September 1917.
The road heads east from Ypres past Hellfire Corner, a famously
dangerous place on the Menin Road. Hessian screens have been erected to
make the traffic less visible to German artillery, which pounds the
route day and night. Soldiers unload large supplies of shells for the
barrage that is to precede the attack. At Hooge Crater, Australian
tunnellers and pioneers are busy preparing underground bunkers for the
headquarters of the Australian units. The ground is so wet that the
dugouts must be continually pumped out by men operating hand pumps.
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