The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Lieutenant John Kennare sitting in a wicker chair outside the barracks, writing a letter to his parents on a day off during the 86 Machine Gun Corps Course. He finished the course in sixth position out of eighty nine participants and second of the eighteen AIF Officers. He was posted immediately to the 4th Australian Machine Gun Company as one of the reinforcements to replace the heavy casualties suffered at the First Battle of Bullecourt.
Lieutenant John Kennare firing a Vickers machine gun during training at the 86 Machine Gun Corps Course, along with Lieutenant Hopkins (left) [believed to be Paul William Hopkins, later MC]. Both Offi
Petit Pont, Belgium. 25 July 1917. Informal group portrait of officers of the 4th Australian Machine Gun Company during a period of rest and training after a fifteen day holding operation at the front
Men of No. 7 Squad, 86 Machine Gun Corps Course, grouped around a Hotchkiss machine gun loaded with ammunition strips during training at Harrowby Miniature Range near the AIF Belton Park Depot. A Lewi
Turnberry, Scotland. 1917-04. Informal group portrait of No. 9 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, trainees in a RFC School of Aerial Gunnery course with a Lewis .303 light machine gun. Left to right, back
Wadi Nimrin. A view of the 7th Sanitary Section of the Anzac Mounted Division passing along a road. An enemy machine gun opened fire on the section near this spot, causing nine casualties out of a s
Members of the 7th Brigade resting in a position along a sunken road near Noreuil, during the fighting by the Australian troops at Bullecourt. Identified are, group of three men in the centre backgrou
