Black and white photograph. Written on back of image: "Carring [sic] Trench mats at Passchendaele" / "17". Carrying trench mats over shelled ground. One mat used to walk over water-filled shell hole.
From the service of Ernest Wilfred Albert Church, 1st Canadian Machine Gun Battalion, 164th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
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