The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 line at Gapaard Farm, east of the recently captured Messines. The Company suffered a significant number of casualties from intense German bombardment with high explosive and shrapnel, gas and machine gun fire. Identified, back row, left to right: Lieutenant (Lt) Hunt, Lt Hopkins, Lt Clouston, Lt Wright, Lt Pettit, Lt Hicks and Lt John H. Kennare. Front row: Lt Headland, Captain (Capt) Langbourne, Capt Mitchell MC and Lt Garner MM.
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
La Carone, France. 23 July 1917. Officers of the 4th Australian Machine Gun Company enjoying a lunch break during a ten mile route march from their rest camp at Vieux Berquin to La Motte via Foret de
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
Officers of the 4th Australian Machine Gun Company eating breakfast in a reserve near Messines, during the Battle of Messines which started on 7 June 1917. They moved to the front line after dark. Ide
Officers of the 4th Australian Machine Gun Company taking a lunch break during gun practice in old trenches near Estaires. They are en route from Neuf Berquin (French Flanders) to Neuve Eglise (Belgia
Officers of the 4th Australian Machine Gun Company helping two women from a local farm sow beans in fields a few miles from the front line across the border in Belgian Flanders. Identified service per
