Signalmen working near Poperinghe, Belgium. They are repairing a broken line on an overground telegraph line, while Pvt. Peters of the takes a photo. In the foreground is a dugout, which was intended to protect the test point on a buried cable. The photograph was taken on August 18, 1918.

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