The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Looking towards Boursieres, from a brick kiln situated between the railway station and the village of Hermies.
A stretch of countryside seen from the Hermies Railway Station, showing Boursieres (Boursies) in the distance (right). This is the area over which the 5th Division advanced in the attack of 2 April 1
Portrait of 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron looking north east to the palm groves of Magil, from the summit of a disused brick kiln.
The railway station at the village of Miraumont which is situated on the railway line which runs through the valley of the Somme river. Heavy fighting between British and German forces in 1917 saw the
Looking along the Doignes-Hermies Road, towards the village of Doignes, in the Bullecourt Sector. Doignes was captured by the 5th Division in the attack of 2 April 1917.
Looking over the brick kiln at Zonnebeke, in the Ypres Sector. Showing the ruins of Zonnebeke Church in the rear. The brick kiln was the German objective on the morning of the Australian attack on 4 O
Wales. Two women war workers packing concrete bricks on to railway trucks at a brick kiln in South Wales. (Donor British Official Photograph BB812)
