Le Touquet Railway Station near Armentieres, German lines in distance

Place Europe: France, Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Lille, Armentieres
Accession Number ART03536
Collection type Art
Measurement 17.5 x 25.2 cm sheet and image
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour, pencil, pen and ink on paper
Maker Summerhayes, Edwin
Place made France
Date made 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

The ruins of Le Touquet railway station, near Armentiere, with derailed carriages set against a rural landscape. Major Edwin Summerhayes, originally an architect in Perth, Western Australia, served with 44 Battalion on the Western Front.