The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Petit Pont, Belgium. 25 June 1917. The four Vickers machine guns of No. 1 Section, 4th Australian Machine Gun Company engaged in gun practice in old trenches at Petit Pont. The Company was resting and training here after the Battle of Messines. They will return to the front line at Gapaard Farm, east of Messines on 28 June 1917 for a fifteen day holding operation.
Petit Pont, Belgium. 15 July 1917. Soldiers of the 4th Australian Machine Gun Company celebrating open air Mass and Holy Communion run by the Catholic Chaplain, Padre Lonergan. The men are resting fol
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
Officers of the 4th Australian Machine Gun Company at gun practice with Vickers machine guns in old trenches near Estaire. They are en route from Neuf Berquin (French Flanders) to Neuve Eglise (Belgia
Petit Pont, Belgium. Australians in a motor lorry watching German shells bursting on Hill 63 during the battle of Messines.
Captain Albert Jacka VC (front holding map), 14th Battalion, comparing his maps with the prepared model of the Messines area, over which his company was to advance on the following day, 7 June 1917, i
A scene on the road near Petit Pont behind Hill 63, during the battle of Messines, on 7June 1917. Soldiers resting by the wayside, watch the smoke of a burning dump just previously ignited by German s
