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"The headquarters of the evacuating system used by the 11th were in the old prison at Ypres, then used by the 9th Australian Field Ambulance Corps Dressing Station for the walking wounded and local casualties. Whilst waiting for orders at Frost House an opportunity presented itself in which the party might survey the whole battlefield as it lay before them open and bare. In some respects it resembled the Somme ahead of Pozieres. There were several wrecked tanks within sight. They were an indication of the progress made five weeks before when the offensive of this section was launched from a mile or so in the rear. Just how far the enemy had since been driven could hardly been determined. To the left three lines of hill-tops could be distinguished. The nearer two were in our possession whilst the third whose summit overlooked the whole countryside, was still in the enemy's hands. This was the dreaded Paschendale Ridge."