Bullecourt

The Australian 5th & 6th Brigades were tasked with attacking the strongly held German position on the Hindenburg Line at Bullecourt on 3rd May 1917. The photograph is taken from the junction of the railway embankment which acted as the Australian forward position and the gap known as the Central Road, looking towards the German trenches known as OG1 & OG2. The 6th Brigade were to the left of this gap, and as a consequence Brig-Gen. Gellibrand decisively had his forward HQ at a point 100m from this gap where the embankment was at its highest, and the 22nd Battalion were on the Brigades far left attacking towards line of trees seen in the distance. The field boundary line seen running from right to left in the middle of the photograph becomes a sunken lane from which the Battalion formed up to mount the dawn attack.