The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The remains of the railway station at Le Sars, after the German retirement. In 1919 a copy of this image was sent to the 22nd Battalion with a request for details. An unknown soldier replied on the official form "Throughout February 1917, the 22nd Battalion were in the front line opposite the Railway Station and Butte de Warlencourt. Many daring patrols were carried out around the railway station by Corporal H Wittner, who was eventually killed near this station whilst on this work." 3963 Hyman Wittner was born at Hariau ( Harlau ?) Roumania (Romania) in 1894 and with his family migrated to Australia c 1912. The family is thought to have changed their name from Myer. Wittner was killed in action on 21 February 1917 and has no known grave.
A German dugout on the Butte de Warlencourt, near Le Sars, France, which throughout January and February 1917, overlooked the Australian lines. The Butte was daily made a target for our artillery fire
Two unidentified Australian soldiers, accompanied by a horse, gathering coal left by German forces on the Bapaume road near the Butte de Warlencourt (background centre). This area was in no man's lan
View of the smashed German light railway engine in the old no man's land, between Le Sars and Warlencourt in March 1917. The Butte de Warlencourt can be seen in the background.
Australian transport returning along the Bapaume Road for supplies for the troops fighting beyond Bapaume. In the background are Le Sars Railway Station, the Quarry, and the Butte de Warlencourt (cen
A line of soldiers, vehicles and horses marching near the Butte-de-Warlencourt. This ancient mound near the village of Warlencourt, France, lay directly in the German front-line opposite the British a
A line of soldiers, ambulances, wagons and horses marching near the Butte de Warlencourt. This ancient mound near the village of Warlencourt, France, lay directly in the German front-line opposite the
